Fang Lanlan received three votes in favor, two votes against, and two abstentions, and there was no majority of votes in favor and could not be passed, which means that the previous resolution to the Organization Department to elect Fang Lanlan as the deputy chief staff member was overturned.

Du Jinsong felt that he had been slapped hard, and his face was hot. Xie Caigen, that old thing, Lao Tzu threw your child into the well? actually gave Lao Tzu such a hand, Lao Tzu was really blind, why didn't he see that this old immortal actually had a leg with Li Rui's little brute!

Li Rui was also unexpectedly for Xie Caigen to suddenly stand on his side, but he remained silent, making people still look confident.

"Comrade Fang Lanlan did not have more than half of the votes, and now only Comrade Meng Chunsheng and Comrade Fang Lanlan have received the votes in favor, should we discuss it again and select one of these two comrades to report to the Organization Department."

"What else to discuss, what to discuss! Since none of them passed, let's discuss it again next time and adjourn the meeting! Du Jinsong couldn't sit still any longer, stood up suddenly, picked up the notebook on the table and turned around and walked out the door.

Seeing this, He Xianqun and Zhou Jian also hurriedly stood up and walked out. Li Rui didn't stop them, and there was even a smile on his face.

Cai Ming saw that they were all gone, and he was about to get up after sorting out his things, but when he saw Li Rui and the other two sitting still, he was suddenly a little embarrassed, and said with a sneering expression: "Secretary Li, is the meeting dissolved?" ”

"Since everyone is gone, let's dismiss." Li Rui smiled.

"Hey! This, I still have something to do below, so I'll go first. Cai Ming hurriedly answered, picked up his things and hurriedly left the conference room.

"I have some Mingqian Longjing there, if it's convenient, you two can come to my office and have a drink." Li Rui invited Xu Chunsheng and Xie Caigen with a smile while sorting out his things.

"Okay!" Xie Caigen agreed with a smile, "Old Xu, go over together?" ”

Xu Chunsheng was also wondering when Xie Caigen hooked up with Li Rui, but before he figured out some things, he didn't want to mix any more troubled waters, shook his head and said, "Go ahead, I still have something on hand." ”

The offices of the three of them were on the third floor, and they walked downstairs together, Xu Chunsheng returned directly to the office alone, and Xie Caigen and Li Rui walked into the easternmost party secretary's office together.

Geng Zhongchen followed behind them respectfully, and he was also extremely shocked by the scene at the meeting just now. Originally, he couldn't wait to join Li Rui, and at first he also had the mentality of being a dead horse and a live horse doctor, but with Li Rui's toughness towards Wu Kaixian, he saw a glimmer of hope, and everything that happened just now made him feel like he was reborn after the catastrophe. Looking at the back of the person who walked in front of him who was seven or eight years younger than him, he suddenly had a kind of reverence that he needed to look up to, it was amazing! Talking and laughing, the canopy was in ashes.

Without Li Rui's explanation, as soon as he walked into the office, Geng Zhongchen began to make tea with his hands and feet. Looking at Geng Zhongchen's meticulous process of washing and making tea, Xie Caigen couldn't help but nodded: "Xiao Geng, not bad!" ”

"Thank you, Chairman Xie." Geng Zhongchen brought two cups of tea to the coffee table, "The two leaders will talk, and I will leave first." ”

Xie Caigen picked up the teacup and carefully observed the tea leaves in the cup, smelled the fragrance, blew the tea leaves and tasted them, and praised repeatedly: "The roots and shoots are tender, the soup is tender and yellow, the taste is sweet, good tea!" This kind of special dragon well is rare on the market! ”

Li Rui smiled: "It just so happened that my friend came over last time and brought me a little, and I'll give you some later." ”

Xie Caigen's eyes lit up when he heard this, "Really? You're welcome. Then he took a sip of tea beautifully, and said with some regret: "It's just that this water is too bad, if you use the spring water of Qingyun Mountain to brew, the taste will be better." ”

"It turns out that Chairman Xie understands tea so well, and these tea leaves are a waste of my place." Li Rui took out a box of tea leaves that had been unsealed from the desk drawer, and it was just such a box last time Zhang Zhuoyang brought it, and now there is still more than half a box left, and Li Ruisuo gave him the surname.

Xie Caigen took the tea and looked at it with some love, then took out the Chinese cigarette that he had exchanged with Li Rui before, handed it to Li Rui and said with a smile: "Today is Greater China and Longjing, and I have taken a lot of advantage of Secretary Li, ashamed, ashamed!" ”

Li Rui picked up the lighter on the table and lit a cigarette for Xie Caigen and himself, looked at the old man who was said to be very fond of taking advantage of small advantages, and did not speak.

Xie Caigen took a puff of cigarette, looked up at Li Rui, and said with a smile: "Don't you understand?" ”

"It's a bit of a puzzle." Li Rui nodded. At first, Li Rui's first reaction Xie Caigen might have been Su Zhiqiang's person, but then after thinking about it carefully, it didn't feel right. He has been coming to Nanqiao for a few days, and there is no response from Su Zhiqiang's side, if Xie Caigen is really his person, Su Zhiqiang has no reason not to tell him.

Xie Caigen looked at Li Rui, his eyes seemed to be complicated, and after a long while, he sighed and said, "Your grandfather, Dean Li, is my life-saving benefactor. ”

Xie Caigen's reason made Li Rui stunned, and he couldn't help but be surprised: "Is it? This is the first time I've heard of it, and I've never heard my grandfather or brother-in-law talk about you. ”

Xie Caigen smiled bitterly and said: "They don't know about me, if your grandfather is still alive, he may still remember me, but he wouldn't have thought that the person who criticized him back then would be the little beggar he saved decades ago." ”

Li Rui listened to Xie Caigen tell the past, and the plot of the story sounded like blood, but listening to Xie Caigen's heavy tone, Li Rui believed that this thing was real.

It turned out that Xie Caigen was an orphan since he was a child, before the liberation was not yet ten years old, he lived by asking for food, one winter it snowed heavily, and Xie Caigen, who was hungry and freezing, fainted at the door of the Li family compound, at that time it was Li Rui's grandfather who rescued him, and gave him cotton clothes and food, so that he spent the last winter before liberation. After liberation, Xie Caigen was also given a new lease of life, was able to go to school, join the army, was demobilized and then found a decent job. Later, in that crazy era, as a member of the Nanqiao County workers' picket, Xie Caigen fiercely criticized Li Rui's grandfather -- a reactionary authority sent back from Pengcheng to his hometown.

Later, when the society was stable, Li Rui's foreigner was reversed, he resumed his job, and returned to Nanqiao after retirement to live in the Li family compound of that year. Xie Caigen wanted to visit the old man at that time, thank him for saving his life, and at the same time make amends for the harm caused to the old man by his stupidity. But he was worried that the old man would not forgive, and the old man at that time was a retired cadre at the department level, and he didn't dare to come to the door when the world was full of peaches and plums. Later, the old man passed away, and he was also old, and his heart was always full of guilt when he recalled the past.

"You look very much like your grandfather, I remember that when I woke up, the face I saw was what you are now. At that time, I wondered if you were a descendant of Dean Li, but later I heard that you lived in the Li family compound, and I asked someone about you, and then I learned that you were Dean Li's grandson. ”

Xie Caigen's expression was full of memories and remorse, and finally said with a wry smile: "The biggest regret in my life is that I didn't come to the door to make amends when Dean Li was alive, and begged for his old man's forgiveness......"

Li Rui is also smiling bitterly, in that era, there was not only one victim of his grandfather, but also tens of millions of abusers who were brainwashed and crazy, this is not a personal responsibility, a mistake of an era, and a historical responsibility. Including him Li Rui is also a product of that history, if his father does not decentralize, it is impossible to know his mother, who is also a child of the Black Five Category, and there will be no such person as Li Rui in the future.

Li Rui let out a long sigh and comforted: "Lao Xie, you don't have to regret it, I think my grandfather will definitely forgive you even if he is still alive." He was an open-minded man, and I remember he once said to me, people should not dwell on the past, but think more about the future, because the future will be beautiful. ”

Xie Caigen also let out a long breath, and smiled reluctantly: "Secretary Li, let you laugh." To be able to get your forgiveness, I already feel a lot better. Thinking about those things in the past, I really don't know what to say. Saying that, Xie Caigen's expression was full, and he looked at Li Rui and said seriously: "Secretary Li, you and I can work together in the same unit, maybe it is also destined by God, give me a chance to atone for my sins." Don't worry, my Lao Xie will definitely support you. ”

Li Rui was also sighing in his heart how could there be such a coincidence, and his luck was too good. Maybe it's really like what Xie Caigen said, the grandfather in the dark blesses himself in heaven.

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