As Ye Ming expected, in the banquet hall on the third floor, the chief table that Su Xing arranged for him and Chen Mengqi to sit at was placed alone at the front of the banquet hall and below the wedding officiating table.

The chief table, which is slightly larger than the others, is covered with a scarlet, embroidered tablecloth, and in the center of the table is a pot of bright red flowers.

At this time, there were already more than a dozen people sitting at the table, including two or three old men in their sixties and seventies, and six or seven middle-aged men and women in their fifties wearing festive costumes—it is estimated that these should be the grandparents, grandparents, aunts, and other elders of Su Xing and his daughter-in-law's family.

In addition, near the presiding stage, there were several middle-aged people with dignified expressions and reserved attitudes. The relatives who woke up were all smiling, and from time to time they chatted with them without words. And these people only occasionally make a remark, or smile politely, but even when they laugh, their expressions are very cold.

As soon as Ye Ming saw the style and posture of these people, he knew that they were several government officials, and their rank was at least above the section level.

Sure enough, after the awakened cousin brought Ye Ming to the chief, before arranging for him to be seated, he first introduced to him in a very respectful tone the officials who were full of officials: sitting in the middle was Deputy Mayor Cao of Yuehai District, sitting next to Deputy District Chief Cao was Director Shan of Yuehai District Planning Bureau, followed by Deputy Director Li of Yuehai District Land Bureau, and General Manager Wei of Yuehai District Urban Construction Investment Co., Ltd......

It turned out that the building materials city planned by the awakened father was in Yuehai District. During this period of time, he didn't know how much money he had spent, but through a few business partners, he finally got acquainted with Cao Ke, deputy head of Yuehai District, Shan Ying, director of the District Planning Bureau, and Li Canru, deputy director of the District Land and Resources Bureau.

Therefore, he solemnly invited them over today, received a red envelope of 600 yuan from each of them, but gave each of them a "backgammon supermarket" shopping coupon worth 20,000 yuan......

When Deputy District Chief Cao introduced them to Ye Ming by his awakened cousin, he glanced at him a few times, and saw that he was handsome, neither humble nor arrogant, and when he heard his awakened cousin introduce his position as "deputy district chief", he just smiled at him slightly, and said lightly, "Hello District Chief Cao", and did not show a solemn look of awe like the others at the table, and couldn't help but be secretly angry, "hum", and turned his head to ignore him.

Several other officials were Cao Ke's subordinates, and when they saw that he seemed to look down on Ye Ming a little, they just nodded to him coldly, and when Ye Ming greeted them, no one responded to him.

The awakened cousin was also a little embarrassed to see Ye Ming being given a cold reception, and after hastily introducing him to several other relatives, he hurriedly walked out of the city to arrange other guests.

Chen Mengqi is a very sensible girl, seeing that there are so many officials and respected relatives sitting at this table, she no longer sticks to Ye Ming as before, but sits there in a proper manner.

After sitting like this for a few minutes, she felt very uncomfortable, and just wanted to lean her head on Ye Ming's shoulder, so she whispered to Ye Ming: "Brother, let's find another table to sit on, I am very restrained here." ”

Ye Ming also had this idea, but since Su Xing arranged for himself to sit here, he must have his own thoughts, and it was not good to brush off his kindness, so he smiled and whispered to comfort her: "Qiqi, don't be impatient!" Wait for us to eat ours, drink ours, and leave when we are full of food and drink, what are the constraints? ”

As he spoke, he reached out and gently grasped her delicate right palm.

Chen Mengqi listened to his soft words to comfort herself, and reached out to hold her palm, with a burst of sweetness and warmth in her heart, so she obediently sat there without squeaking.

A few minutes later, the awakened cousin came to the chief with a man with a smile on his face. Ye Ming turned his head and saw that it was Su Han.

This time, the awakened cousin chose to introduce Su Han first.

He pulled Su Han to stand on the side where Deputy District Chief Cao and the others were sitting, pointed at Su Han, and introduced in a very respectful tone: "District Chief Cao, this is the section chief of Su Han Su of the municipal government office, and now he is the secretary of Deputy Mayor She. ”

Cao Ke and the others are all on the line that She Chuming is in charge of, and they are his direct subordinates.

Therefore, after hearing that Su Han was Vice Mayor She's secretary, Cao Ke seemed to be frightened, and suddenly bounced up from the chair, and the cold look just now was replaced by a sneer on his face, turned around and grabbed Su Han's hand, shaking it again and again, and said excitedly: "Secretary Su, hello, hello!" I am Cao Ke, who is in charge of urban construction and land work in Yuehai District. Since Mayor Sheh's promotion, I have been looking for an opportunity to visit him, but Mayor She is too busy with work, so I have not been able to do so. Now, I got acquainted with Secretary Su today, and it will be much more convenient to report to Mayor She in the future. Hehehe! ”

Su Han glanced at Ye Ming and Chen Mengqi, who were sitting opposite, then turned his gaze to Cao Ke, smiled reservedly, and said, "Hello District Chief Cao!" In the future, please don't call me Secretary Su, I'm just a miscellaneous person, pouring tea for Mayor She, opening the car door, delivering documents, that's all. You call me the big secretary, why should I be restrained? ”

Cao Ke said again and again: "Secretary Su, you are too modest, too modest!" Come on, come on, you sit in this position, I'll sit with you, and I'll have a few glasses of wine with you later! ”

As he spoke, he forcibly pressed Su Han to sit down in his middle position, and sat in the vacated position vacated by Deputy Director Li of the Land Bureau.

Ye Ming knows that the people in the officialdom attach great importance to the secretaries of the superior leaders, and they are also very willing to stammer. According to an officialdom novel, the secretary of the superior chief is the de facto "second chief". They sometimes say something to the chief, which is worse than the "pillow wind" of the chief's wife.

Of course, Cao Ke didn't know that Su Han was actually very untrusted by She Chuming, so he would curry favor with him so much at this moment.

Chen Mengqi saw that Su Han didn't even say a word of modesty, so he sat down in the middle of the position, with a smug expression on his face, knowing that his vanity was greatly satisfied, so he quietly pouted at him and made a "cut" mouth shape, fortunately Su Han didn't find out.

Originally, Su Han also wanted to introduce Chen Mengqi to Cao Ke and others as Vice Mayor She's niece, but vanity made him stop again: a snobbish officialdom old fritter like District Mayor Cao, if he knew that the niece of Vice Mayor She was sitting opposite the road, he was afraid that he would immediately abandon his little secretary and go to curry favor with Chen Mengqi and Ye Ming.

And this is the last thing he wants to see and the most intolerable.