It was Li Rui's turn to come forward to toast, no matter what he thought in his heart, this face work must be clean, he respectfully toasted Li Yifeng, and Li Yifeng drank it all as usual. looked at Li Rui with a smile on his face and said, "I heard that you are now the party secretary of Qingshanquan Town, Nanqiao County?" ”

"Yes, Mayor Lee."

"Well, that's good! Ordered in danger. I read the results of the handling of the 'March 18 Incident' in your county report, and they handled it very well, not only did they not expand the situation, but also eased the contradictions between the cadres and the masses, and then promoted the county's stability maintenance work. It shows that you, the secretary of the town party committee, have also withstood the test. Li Yifeng praised without hesitation.

Li Rui hurriedly said modestly: "The main reason is that the county party committee and county government have good leadership, and we just did some specific work." Moreover, the reason for the occurrence of the '3.18' group* is also caused by our previous carelessness, which should be compensated. ”

Li Yifeng smiled and nodded, "Not arrogant or impatient, very good!" But after all, you are ordered to be in danger, and your previous work has nothing to do with you. I heard Comrade Yang Chao report to me, saying that the summing up of your town party committee has also done quite well, and it has given a wake-up call to all county leaders, so that they can realize that this era is different, and our work methods and methods must also be improved, otherwise we will be seriously divorced from the masses and cause all kinds of contradictions. Quite profound! This shows that you have indeed summed up the summing up and seen the essence through the appearance, and it also shows that you, a comrade, are down-to-earth and really sink into work. ”

Li Rui was really flattered, although he understood that Li Yifeng meant to flatter, but what he said was real, and he gave full recognition. hurriedly said: "Mayor Li has won the award, these are the collective wisdom of the comrades, I just synthesized the opinions of the comrades." ”

"Hehehe......" Li Yifeng patted him on the shoulder with a smile, "You don't have to be too modest." Comrade Yang Chao has reported your situation to me, and I know it in my heart. Do a good job, if you have any difficulties in your work in the future, you can go to Comrade Yang Chao. He is also full of praise for you, a subordinate. ”

Then Li Yifeng personally sent them out of the private room, and Li Rui and Zhang Zhuoyang knew it. Only Lao Zhao nodded vigorously: "Mayor Li, please stay, please stay." ”

Until he walked outside, Lao Zhao was still immersed in the excitement of being courteous by Mayor Li, and kept sighing: "Mayor Li is usually very serious, but he is still very approachable in private, the key is to do a good job." ”

Li Rui and Zhang Zhuoyang looked at each other and smiled silently. While Lao Zhao was going to the toilet, Zhang Zhuoyang said with a smile: "It seems that today's chance encounter was set in advance. ”

Li Rui nodded: "Lao Zhao doesn't know, our Mayor Li is pretending to be quite similar." ”

"Come on, Mayor Li has fully affirmed your work. You have to thank people. ”

"That is, this tiger skin of the Zhang family is still very useful."

"Why are you here again......"

Li Yifeng sent the person away, returned to his seat and sat down, Fan Ling, who had been holding back without speaking, hurriedly poured some tea in his cup and complained: "Look at you." After drinking three glasses in a row, your stomach is not good, and you can't drink liquor, and you don't know it. ”

Li Yifeng smiled and waved his hand, "It's okay." It's okay. What is this wine! ”

Li Lin looked dissatisfied and puzzled: "Brother, what's wrong with you today?" I was so happy that I not only took the initiative to ask us to eat seafood, but also treated these people so politely, and helped outsiders teach me a lesson. ”

Li Yifeng took a sip of tea, looked at Li Lin and said earnestly: "Xiao Lin, I didn't say you, why are you so old." Let's just say that Director Zhao and Li Rui came in just now, even if he hit your car, you shouldn't shout so loudly, what do you think you look like! What's more, you are not reasonable, people who drive know that rear-end collision is full responsibility, it's good if people don't trouble you, you are endless, what do you make them think, is my Li Yifeng's sister an unreasonable person? ”

Li Lin realized that he was at a loss, but he still muttered: "I don't care what they think, who asked him to scold me for being Zhu Bajie." ”

Li Yifeng sighed and shook his head, his sister has been spoiled since she was a child, and she is still not worry-free. Fan Ling saw something from her husband's abnormal behavior just now, and asked in a low voice, "What happened to Mr. Zhang and Li Rui just now?" ”

"They are ......" As soon as the words came out, Li Yifeng glanced at Li Lin and his son, waved his hand and said, "Forget it, let's talk about this when we go home." ”

Li Lin originally pricked up her ears, but Li Yifeng didn't say anything, and couldn't help but snort coldly: "Hmph! What's the big deal, isn't it just the party secretary of Qingshanquan Town, Nanqiao County! I've heard that the last time they had a mass incident in Qingshanquan Town, the police arrested a lot of people, isn't this suppression......"

"Xiao Lin!" Li Yifeng interrupted her with a straight face, "This kind of thing is also something you can say, you are a reporter, you should speak according to the facts, how can you catch wind and shadows, hearsay." Besides, you are a reporter for Pengcheng Daily, what is Pengcheng Daily? That is the organ newspaper of our Pengcheng City Party Committee, and it is the mouthpiece of the party, what do you mean by this? Even if it is, you can't say it. Tell me about you, what I told you before, you should be on the sidelines, right? I'm telling you, if you weren't my sister, you would have been fired from the newspaper a long time ago......"

"Okay, okay, you just don't have to say a word. Aren't they all family members now, what can't you say? Xiao Lin, you too, why don't you have a long memory, you know how to make your brother angry all day long. Fan Ling saw Li Lin covering her ears and looking impatient, and hurriedly came out to play a round.

"Brother, sister-in-law, I know, I will pay attention to it in the future." Li Lin dragged out her voice and agreed, but at first glance, she looked insincere.

Li Yifeng had no choice but to glare at her at all, and then let out a long sigh. And Li Lin was muttering in his heart at this time: "Qingshanquan Town, if you have the opportunity in the future, you will definitely expose him!" ”

The family compound of the municipal government, the standing committee of the house.

Gao Changlong rarely came back early today, he had already taken a shower and changed into pajamas and sat on the sofa reading the newspaper, although Cen Aini was watching TV, he was obviously a little absent-minded, and glanced at the clock on the wall from time to time.

"It's almost nine o'clock, why hasn't Gao Jie come back yet?" Cen Aini finally couldn't help but nag.

"Maybe they have a party in the bureau, right? She didn't just take over the office. Why didn't the girl call back and say something? Gao Changlong asked.

"I said, I just said that I wouldn't go home for dinner, and I didn't say that there was entertainment in the bureau. Usually there is entertainment, and this time should come back. He said. Cen Ailian frowned and said, "Shouldn't she go to Li Rui again today?" Didn't come back again in the evening. ”

Gao Changlong also frowned when he heard this, and his mouth "tsk". "You don't care about the child's affairs, she should be measured when she is such an adult."

"Measured? Hmph, they're all living together, what's the point. I don't think it's a matter if it goes on like this, that Li Rui seems to live in the front compound, right? In case someone sees you, I'll see where to put your old face! ”

Gao Changlong put down the newspaper in his hand, sighed and said, "Then what do you say?" Don't let her out in the future? Haven't you been in a hurry to marry her off? ”

Cen Ailian's sad face said, "I think so." But I always feel unsure. How many did you say that you introduced her earlier, and which one was poor? But she didn't match any of them, but she fell in love with Li Rui, who was several years younger than her. It's a full four years old, can this be appropriate? ”

"Only the feet know if the shoes fit properly. I think you should worry less about the girl's business. I think Li Rui is a good young man, and his work ability is also strong, and Lao Ji mentioned him to me two days ago, saying that he is doing a good job in Qingshanquan Town now. Gao Changlong said.

"Since he did a good job, then Lao Ji didn't promote him." Cen Ailian.

Gao Changlong smiled: "You think it's so easy to promote a cadre." If you can't make a little achievement, how can you be promoted? ”

"Our Gao Jie has long been at the department level, and now he is presiding over the work of the office of the Mining Bureau, and he is about to be dealt with, but he is still a section-level cadre. Tsk......" Cen Ailian couldn't help but shake her head, looking dissatisfied.

"I said how did you become so snobbish now, what's wrong with section-level cadres, isn't it appropriate?" Gao Changlong Road.

Cen Ailian said angrily: "Who is snobbish, it's just that these two husband and wife, if the male has a lower position than the woman, it is inevitable that he will not stumble." ”

"You haven't skimmed these eight words yet, but you're thinking quite far." Gao Changlong couldn't help laughing.

"It's all living together, and you haven't even said a word? It's just that I haven't even seen this Li Rui's face, and I don't know what the situation is at home? ”

"Don't worry, didn't I tell you, this young man is good, although he is still only a section-level cadre, but after all, he is still young. I heard Lao Ji say that he took the initiative to ask to work in the township, which shows that he has a lot of ideas and ambitions, and wants to work step by step from the grassroots level. According to the current organizational regulations, great importance is attached to whether a cadre has grassroots work experience, and this is also a rigid criterion for promoting cadres. And judging from the aftermath of the '3.18' group* case, the handling is quite good, and I think he has a very promising future. ”

"What about his family situation?" Cen Ailian's face finally looked a little better, and then hurriedly asked.

"Family situation?" Gao Changlong thought for a while and sighed: "Speaking of which, this kid is quite pitiful. He is the grandson of the old dean of the former College of Engineering, Li Lao, his parents divorced when he was very young, and his mother died early, he grew up with Li Lao. ”

"Alas! It's pathetic. Cen Ailian sighed, but she immediately said with some joy: "He turned out to be the grandson of Li Lao, and their Li family ancestors are generations of scholars and famous families!" By the way, Li Lao's son is said to be the deputy general manager of Penggong Group, deputy department level, yes, this is quite appropriate. ”

Gao Changlong laughed and said, "I didn't admit that I was snobbish just now, why is it my turn to be the first place now?" I said that you were the eldest lady of the capitalist back then, why did you fall in love with me, a poor boy? ”

Cen Ailian glanced at him, thinking of what happened when he was young, and a burst of sweetness suddenly surged in his heart, but on the surface, he still didn't say well: "What a capitalist eldest lady, at that time, all the old and young in our family were rightists, and I originally wanted to find someone with a good background." Are you from a working family, the working class is the leading class, and I still climb high, but I didn't expect that when you got married and had children, you were also branded as a rightist. As he spoke, he deliberately sighed, "Alas! At the time, I didn't want to mention how much I regretted it. If I had known that the more knowledge I had, the more reactionary I would be, I might as well have found a boss. ”

"Do you regret it now?" Gao Changlong took off his reading glasses and teased his wife.

Cen Ailian snorted, "Don't think that you are proud of being the secretary of the municipal party committee now." Regret! How can I not regret it? I'm busy every day from morning to night, serving you both. I'm about to become the old mother of the family, how can I not regret it! ”

Gao Changlong looked at his wife, who had grown a lot of white hair, and said, "Aini, you have really worked hard all these years. ”

Cen Ailian's nose was sour, and she glared at Gao Changlong and said, "What about our daughter, how can it be related to ourselves." ”

Gao Changlong touched his nose and said, "Then you say, continue." ”

Cen Ailian thought for a while and said, "It's not a matter for the two of them to look like this now. You say that who doesn't know who is in and out of this city government compound, in case someone sees it one day, you can't point a finger? So I thought, should I buy a house for Gao Jie, and when they get married in the future, they will use it as a new house. What do you think? ”

"Buying a house?" Gao Changlong groaned, "Do you need to be so excited?" Besides, Gao Jie, didn't they also give her a house in the bureau! ”

"That's also called a house? It's all the old man's house in the seventies, like a pigeon cage, and the two-room household is less than 50 square meters, how can you live it! Li Rui works at Nanqiao. Look, I can't transfer it back for a while, so I can't install the new house in Nanqiao, right? There is a new community in Yunlong Park, which is not only in a good location, but also has a very good environment, just behind the park. Out of the community gate is the back door of the park. I want to buy a house for Gao Jie there, three bedrooms and one living room, more than 100 square meters, large apartment. I calculated that we helped her pay the down payment, and for other loans, her provident fund can be deducted by repaying more than half of the monthly loan, and at most three or four hundred yuan will be repaid. ”

"Why are you so troublesome, you just pay all the money." Gao Changlong said impatiently.

"That's not good, it's going to be nearly 200,000 yuan, aren't you afraid that others will say that you, the secretary of the municipal party committee, are corrupt and take bribes?" Cen Ailian said with white eyes.

"Yes, yes, yes! Or if you think about it, then you can do it. Gao Changlong smiled dumbly and hurriedly said. In fact, things like buying a house are not worth mentioning at all, and besides, he has to retire without much time, and someone will say something.

Cen Ailian continued to nag: "Anyway, our family Gao Jie is four years older than others, and it is still a second marriage. Besides, you should retire when the term changes next year, and I'm afraid that people will have ideas. Although people are from a scholarly family, now they just listen to it and it's just a good picture, they are all ruined! It's not easy for this child, I heard you just say that, it's no different from an orphan, let's buy a house for Gao Jie to add a little bit of capital......"

Gao Changlong can't listen to it anymore, where is this! Could it be that Li Rui can't afford to buy a house? frowned and said, "Oops! Don't nag anymore, I don't think Li Rui is such a person, he has been with Gao Jie for more than half a year, when have you heard him ask Gao Jie to ask me to do official things? No. People also took the initiative to go down to the grassroots level to exercise, even Lao Ji, and he didn't take the initiative to mention his relationship with Gao Jie. I heard Lao Ji say, and he still listened to Ji Jie from their family. This shows that he is good with Gao Jie, not because Gao Jie has me, the father who is the secretary of the municipal party committee. Okay, okay, let's not talk about it, let's rest early. ”

However, when it came to Li Rui's family situation just now, Gao Changlong always had some doubts in his heart, he had read Li Rui's file, Li Rui worked in the Youth League Committee of Yenching University before coming to Pengcheng, and his level was already a regular department. The Youth League Committee of Yenching University is definitely a place for cadres, and the current first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League used to be the secretary of the Youth League Committee of Yenching University. Generally, you can work in this kind of place, unless your ability is particularly outstanding, and someone from above must appreciate it, and there are those with a particularly deep background, like the successors cultivated by some political families. Li Rui was able to stay in the Youth League Committee as soon as he graduated from university, and in just two years, his level was already a regular subject. What's even more unbelievable is that he actually gave up his work in the Yan Youth League Committee and returned to Pengcheng, now it looks like he is going to the mine to save people regardless of the danger of his life, and he is taking the initiative to go to the grassroots level to exercise, not at all like a person with no political ambitions, he clearly wants to make a career, so why didn't he choose the shortcut of the Yan Youth League Committee, but wanted to return to Pengcheng? And who his father is, there is only one name in the file - Zhang Jianguo, and there is no other information. Gao Changlong always felt that there seemed to be something wrong here, but he couldn't find the problem.

Could it be that Li Rui's father has a background? Did he arrange Li Rui to work in the Youth League Committee of Yan University? So why come back? These are all things that Gao Changlong is puzzled about. Zhang Jianguo? The member of the Standing Committee of the Jiangdong Provincial Party Committee and the secretary of the Mingyang Municipal Party Committee is called Zhang Jianguo. But he is the third son of Zhang Bingwen, one of the elders of today's political arena, and the hope star of the Zhang family, the top wealthy family in the political world, could he be Li Rui's father. Gao Changlong is even more skeptical. Thinking about it, I think this is a fantasy, how could the Zhang family throw a shrewd third generation like Li Rui to Pengcheng to fend for himself. Not to mention people like the Zhang family. Even if Zhang Jianguo divorced in his early years, how could he tolerate his own flesh and blood and his surname? It is said that Mr. Zhang is politically consistent with the old man and is very radical, but he is a very traditional person in his bones, and he should not allow this kind of thing to happen.

Gao Changlong suddenly smiled and shook his head, he felt a little funny that he had associated Li Rui's father with this Zhang Jianguo, how could this be possible?

"What are you laughing at?" Cen Ailian stood up from the couch. Seeing her husband smile inexplicably, she asked in surprise.

"It's okay, it's okay!" Gao Changlong waved his hand.

Also in the compound of the city government's family, a closed bedroom is full of glamour. Two* people are rolling on the bed, sometimes Guanyin sitting on the lotus, sometimes dragonflies and water, sometimes accompanied by tigers down the mountain, across the mountain to fight cattle, unilaterally roast goose legs, and finally restored to the most ancient and traditional old Han cart. After a stormy sprint, accompanied by the cuckoo's bloody moan, Li Rui finally fell down on Gao Jie's soft and weak delicate body with a low roar

After a quick gasp, he finally eased up, and he supported his body, playing with Gao Jie's long sweat-soaked hair. He smiled and asked, "How is it, am I amazing?" ”

Gao Jie had woken up from the confusion, looked at his lover above him, his eyes were rolling, and he smiled coquettishly: "Amazing, how can you not be amazing?" ”

Li Rui smiled proudly, turned over and dismounted like a victorious general, hugged Gao Jie into his arms, and the two snuggled and talked.

Of course, the topic is inseparable from Zhang Zhuoyang, who Gao Jie met for the first time today, and when it comes to happiness, Gao Jie said with a smile: "I didn't expect your cousin to be quite interesting, such a big boss is still arguing with you like a child, your relationship must be very good." ”

"Yes, he's always taken good care of me, otherwise I wouldn't have had such a good time now." Li Rui said with a smile.

"He is quite powerful, he founded Tengfei Group at a young age, and if he can develop a project like Tengfei Center, his assets must be hundreds of millions, right?" Gao Jie asked.

"Maybe it's more than that, right? Who knows, he started by relying on officials. Li Rui said as he stroked his noble hair.

"Official? Their family is also an official? Gao Jie said curiously. Relying on officials to accumulate so much wealth, how big an official is that? And Zhang Zhuoyang has a Beijing film, shouldn't he be a big leader in the capital?

Li Rui accidentally slipped his mouth, seeing Gao Jie's surprised look, he thought about his own affairs and had to tell Gao Jie, and he didn't find a suitable opportunity to open his mouth several times, since she took the initiative to ask now, Li Rui said frankly: "It's an official, a big official." His father, who is also my uncle, is the executive deputy director of the Planning Commission, and he is at the ministerial level. ”

"Huh?" Gao Jie's mouth suddenly grew, she had already faintly felt that Li Rui had a background, but she didn't expect this background to be so big.

Li Rui looked at Gao Jie and said seriously: "Actually, there are some things I have always wanted to find an opportunity to tell you, my surname Li is following my mother's surname, my father's ...... My father's surname is Zhang ......"

"I know that? Otherwise, why would your cousin be called Zhang Zhuoyang? You probably want to tell me about your father's house, right? You told me that your parents divorced when you were very young, but you never took the initiative to mention your father, if you don't want to say it, don't say it, I finally know now that you also have a background, and this background is still very big. Gao Jie saw that Li Rui was a little spitting, and felt pity in her heart, in fact, she was a more emotional person in her bones, she had seen Li Rui's painful expression when she talked about the divorce of her parents when she was a child, although she was curious, she didn't want to force him.

Li Rui shook his head and said, "My grandfather's name is Zhang Bingwen, you should have heard this name, and you should have seen him on TV......"

"You mean he...... He's your grandfather? This time, Gao Jie's mouth opened wider, and his finger pointed upward.

Li Rui nodded and said, "That's right, he is my grandfather......"

"You didn't lie to me, did you?" Gao Jie's face was full of shock.

"What am I lying to you for?" Li Rui's face had a hint of ridicule, "My grandfather is him, he has three sons and a daughter, my eldest uncle's name is Zhang Jianxin, and my second uncle's name is Zhang Jianzhong, who works in the army, and now he is also a general." It's mine...... My biological father's name is Zhang Jianguo, and he is now a member of the Standing Committee of the Jiangdong Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Mingyang Municipal Party Committee. There is also my sister-in-law, named Zhang Xiuxiu, who works in the Education Commission and is the deputy director of the Personnel Department, and Guo Wending, the organization minister here, is a classmate of the party school, so Minister Guo has always taken good care of me. ”

"So you're also the kind of prince in the legend......"

Li Rui laughed mockingly, "What kind of prince am I, I'm just an abandoned son of their Zhang family." Let me tell you this, except for the blood of the Zhang family in my body, except for my sister-in-law and Zhang Zhuoyang, who are good to me, everyone else...... Hmph, who cares if I'm there? Maybe some people wish there was no one like me in this world. But I wasn't a good person before, and I did a lot of ridiculous things, in fact, when I returned to Pengcheng, I couldn't get along in my original unit because I got into trouble. ”

"How is this possible? Don't...... Has your father never taken care of you? Gao Jie muttered.

"Father? Hmph, for as long as I can remember, there has never been a concept of a father, and he has long since reorganized the family after abandoning our mother and son. In his eyes, I say that it is a bottle of oil, an unstable factor that hinders their happy life. I've never seen him smile at me, not even a word of encouragement, either reprimanded or disgusted......"

Gao Jie went from shock to sadness, she didn't expect Li Rui to have such a life experience, let alone that his life would be so bad and painful. She took the initiative to take Li Rui into her arms, and put her warm palm on Li Rui's face distorted by pain, and said with pity: "Since you don't want to mention it, then why do you want to say it?" ”

Li Rui looked at Gao Jie's watery eyes and her tender eyes, took a deep breath and said: "Because I love you and I want to marry you, I don't want to hide my life experience, and I will have to say it sooner or later." ”

"I know!" Gao Jie smiled, charming and moving, she lowered her head and put her face on Li Rui's forehead, she didn't speak, she quietly hugged Li Rui, her eyes looked out of the window and looked at the distant night sky, sweet, sad and deeply confused......