In the ward of the obstetrics and gynecology department of the hospital, Zhang Ningning lives in a single suite, which is a private hospital with an excellent reputation in Beijing, without the noise and hustle and bustle of public hospitals, it seems very quiet.

When Chen Xing entered the ward, his mother-in-law Zeng Yun was sitting on the side chatting with his wife, with joy on her face, seeing Chen Xing, Zeng Yun stood up, "Chen Xing, it's here." ”

"Mom, thank you for your hard work." Chen Xing said gratefully, his parents are both working in Haicheng, and his wife's career is in the capital, thanks to his mother-in-law taking care of him for a long time.

"What kind words did the family say, Ning Ning is your wife, or my baby daughter, you said this outside, you should be beaten." Zeng Yun chuckled, "Chen Xing, if you come, you will sit with Ning Ning, and I will go back and stew some chicken soup." ”

"Okay, Mom, you're going to get busy." Chen Xing hurriedly nodded and smiled, and was eager to be alone with his wife for a while.

Zeng Yun left, Chen Xing couldn't wait to sit at the head of the bed, Xiao Biesheng was newly married, and his wife hadn't seen him for a month or two, Chen Xing felt like a long time apart, this will be the little two alone, and I don't know how many sweet words to say, especially looking at his wife lying on the bed, the round belly is very eye-catching, Chen Xing couldn't help but put his head on it, "Now that I speak, the baby must be able to hear." ”

"Not only can I hear it, but I can also kick you." Zhang Ningning smiled, and as soon as Zhang Ningning spoke, he sighed.

"What's wrong?" Chen Xing said tightly.

"The baby is being naughty, and I'm making a fuss in my stomach just as I speak." Zhang Ningning's face was filled with the happiness of becoming a mother.

"Looks like he must have heard us talking, and he was anxious to come out and see what Mom and Dad looked like." Chen Xing laughed, "I think, it must be a handle, that's why I'm so naughty." ”

"I still have a handle, I like girls." Zhang Ningning curled his mouth slightly.

"Okay, it's okay to be a man or a woman, in this era, you can't be patriarchal anymore, I'm not an old feudal, and I like my daughter." Chen Xing grinned, "But I guess your father and your mother definitely prefer boys." ”

"Nonsense, they haven't said it, how do you know."

"Personal intuition." Chen Xing smiled slightly, he pondered that his father-in-law Zhang Guohua should hope that Zhang Ningning would give birth to a man, otherwise this generation will be passed on from generation to generation, and who will inherit the Zhang family in the future?

Chatting with Zhang Ningning, Chen Xing was still worried about listening to the movements of the child in his belly, and said with a smile, "I'll see if the baby has any movement first." ”

Sticking his face up, Chen Xing faintly heard the heartbeat of the child in his belly, as if he had a heart, Chen Xing even felt the belly where his ears were close to him, the baby in his belly was kicking him, Chen Xing could clearly feel the belly that was close to him moving, and he couldn't close his mouth with a smile.

"Looks like the baby is getting close to you." Zhang Ningning stroked his stomach and said with a smile.

"That must be, look at his father coming back all the way just to wait for him to be born, can he not be close to me."

"Stinky beauty, I think the baby must be beating you, saying that you will rarely come back once."

"Yes, yes, right." Chen Xingle smirked, the couple were separated, and during his wife's pregnancy, he couldn't keep running to the capital as the mayor, and he felt a little guilty about his wife.

"Still smirking, it's almost thirty years old, and you're still a mayor, you look at you like this, no one believes you when you say you're the mayor." Zhang Ningning didn't have a good airway.

"Who's who, who's the mayor in this house? How I didn't see it, there are only husbands and wives here, where is the mayor. Chen Xing turned his head to look left and right, looking like he was in trouble.

Zhang Ningning looked at her husband, always with a sweet smile on her face, the husband and wife get along, the atmosphere is always very relaxed, Zhang Ningning likes and enjoys such an atmosphere.

While the two were talking, there was a knock on the door outside, the couple glanced at each other, Zhang Ningning tidied up his clothes a little, and Chen Xing shouted in.

Thinking that it was a nurse from the hospital, he realized that it was Zhang Ming at a glance, Chen Xing couldn't help but stand up and shouted with a smile.

"Chen Xing is also here, he just arrived today." Zhang Ming was full of smiles, put down the fruit he was carrying, and said with a smile, "Zhang Ningning, did the doctor say that tomorrow or the day after tomorrow?" ”

"Tomorrow, it's just an approximate time, I can't say." Zhang Ningning said.

"Okay, okay, I've been looking forward to hugging my nephew." Zhang Ming's eyes narrowed with laughter.

"How do you know it's a nephew, maybe it's a niece." Zhang Ningning glanced at Zhang Ming.

"It's all the same, it's all the same." Zhang Ming laughed.

After sitting for a while, Zhang Ming turned his head to look at Chen Xing and said with a smile, "Chen Xing, let's go to the small living room outside to catch up, the eldest brother has something to tell you." ”

"Okay." Chen Xing nodded.

Walking outside with Zhang Ming, Chen Xing was puzzled, Zhang Ming and Zhang Yi, the two brothers-in-law, his relationship with Zhang Yi is better, and he is closer, with more contacts, and the relationship with Zhang Ming is relatively poor, but although Zhang Ming's character is a little arrogant, but now he treats him as his own person, and he has nothing to say to him, but the two have no connection after all, Chen Xing will also wonder what Zhang Ming will do if he looks for him alone.

Sitting down on the sofa in the small living room with Chen Xing's shoulder, Zhang Ming also glanced back at the ward inside, and saw that Zhang Ningning's attention was not outside, Zhang Ming whispered to Chen Xing, "Chen Xing, I have something to trouble you." ”

"Big brother and I have seen each other, don't you have anything to say." Chen Xing smiled, wondering in his heart, Zhang Ming's energy is only big and not small compared to him, but there is something to ask him for?

Seeing that Chen Xing's gaze was a little strange, Zhang Ming also laughed and said, "Chen Xing, what about me, I recently met a young man, a master's student from Beijing University, she is from Nanzhou, no, she graduated this summer, she plans to go back to Nanzhou to work, you arrange a job for her in the city government, do you think there is a problem?" ”

Chen Xing listened to Zhang Ming's words, his face was strange, and he secretly said in his heart Sure enough, it is really not a good thing for Zhang Ming to find him, as for the little young man in the other party's mouth, everyone is a man, and they know each other, Chen Xing doesn't have to think much about it to know that it is the little lover that Zhang Mingxin knows, thinking that this is the first time Zhang Ming has opened his mouth to him, Chen Xing is not easy to refuse, he knows that even if he refuses, Zhang Ming has a way to arrange it by himself, but it is just that he happens to be in Nanzhou, so he directly found him.

With a headache, he slapped his forehead, and Chen Xing said, "Big brother, do you want to directly arrange a staffed position for her?" You should understand that all those who have an establishment now have to take the civil service examination. ”

"I understand, so I don't want you to get her a set up directly, you just look at which positions have external recruitment of labor dispatch workers, arrange one for her first, and then arrange an exam later." Zhang Ming said with a smile.

"That's fine." Chen Xing nodded, secretly relieved in his heart, fortunately Zhang Ming didn't embarrass him too much, if it was just like this, it would not be difficult, thinking that since Zhang Ming said that the other party was a master's student of Beijing University, Chen Xing pondered that the comprehensive quality would definitely not be low, and being able to be admitted to a master's student of Beijing University would prove his ability in itself, such a person would not be far from it.

"Chen Xing, then I will explain this matter to you, and I will entrust you to take care of him more in the future." Zhang Ming was in a good mood when he saw that the matter was done, and patted Chen Xing's shoulder and smiled.

"Big brother, you have been in the capital all the year round, and you have a wide network of contacts in the capital, seeing that you are quite attentive to her, wouldn't it be better to place her in the capital." Chen Xing said with a smile.

"Hey, your sister-in-law is a ruthless character, Chen Xing, get it." Zhang Ming shook his head, and gave Chen Xing a look that a man should understand, there is a fierce wife at home, and then smiled, "Besides, that little girl herself likes to go back to Nanzhou, I will simply fulfill her, do you say it." ”

"Big brother, you say yes, that's it." Chen Xing shook his head and smiled, and said in his heart that Zhang Ming's golden house was hidden in Nanzhou, maybe this one was just one of Zhang Ming's golden house treasures, but thinking about himself, he was not much better, Chen Xing was really not qualified to say anything more about Zhang Ming's affairs.

"Actually, the main thing is that she wants to enter the government and is more interested in politics, otherwise with her education, it is not easy to find a good job, she has submitted a few resumes before, and has applied for a multinational group, but she is not much interested, two days ago she told me to take the civil service exam, I thought she was from Nanzhou, and this didn't think of you." Zhang Ming said with a smile.

"Let her come over first, this year's national examination or the local civil service examination in Nanzhou next spring, let her sign up." Chen Xing said.

Zhang Ming nodded, and then said, "The exam shouldn't be difficult for her, what I mean is to let you take care of and support you more in the future, what, by the way, help me watch more, hehe, that's a talented and good-looking woman, there is no need to say much if she studies well, and she doesn't know how many people she can charm when she looks small." ”

"Ahem, big brother, I see that you said so much, in fact, the focus is on the last sentence or two, I am afraid that she will come out of the wall in Nanzhou, let me help you keep an eye on it." Chen Xing couldn't cry or laugh, he, the mayor, had become a little lover who helped people watch it.

"Haha, by the way, Chen Xing, you still know me." Zhang Ming smiled obscenely.

As the two were talking, the door was suddenly pushed open from the outside, Zhang Ming's eyes widened, and he just wanted to scold who came in without knocking on the door, but he saw that it was the third uncle Zhang Guohua who came in, Zhang Ming reflexively stood up, "Third uncle, you are here." ”

"Dad." Chen Xing also stood up, a little surprised in his heart, when would the old man also arrive in the capital.

"What are you two muttering?" Zhang Guohua looked at Zhang Ming and Chen Xing.

"No, Chen Xing and I are chatting about when to go to their Nanzhou to have a good time and let him entertain him." Zhang Ming smiled, his face was a little unnatural, the old man is gone, now the helmsman of the Zhang family is Zhang Guohua, Zhang Guohua, who has become the leader of the provincial party committee, looks more and more majestic, and the juniors of the Zhang family are a little stunned when they see Zhang Guohua now.

Zhang Guohua glanced at Zhang Ming, whether Zhang Ming was telling the truth or not, he could see it at a glance, but he didn't bother to care about children's affairs, so he didn't ask much, nodded at Chen Xing, walked to the inner ward, and saw his daughter, the look on Zhang Guohua's face was soothed, and when he saw this baby daughter, Zhang Guohua would show his kind side.

"Chen Xing, you remember what I told you, I'll flash people first." Zhang Ming smiled and winked at Chen Xing and whispered.

The two also walked in, and after Zhang Ming laughed a few words, he said, "Ning Ning, then I'll leave first, and I'll come to see you tomorrow." ”

As he spoke, he turned his head to look at Zhang Guohua with a smile on his face, "Third uncle, you have time to go to my house to sit." ”

"Zhang Ming, you will leave as soon as I come, are you going to do something bad?" Zhang Guohua smiled slightly.

"Third uncle, do you think I look like that kind of person." Zhang Ming shouted, "I've been here for a while, and I have to go first." ”

"Go ahead and get down to business." Zhang Guohua advised.

"Third uncle, don't worry, I will keep your teachings in mind." Zhang Ming responded with a grin, and after nodding to Chen Xing, he immediately smeared oil on the soles of his feet and slipped away.

Chen Xing moved a chair and sat aside, I don't know if Zhang Guohua had just arrived or had come over a long time ago, and asked, "Dad, have you just arrived in the capital?" ”

"I've been here for days." Zhang Guohua rubbed his temples, looking quite tired.

"Dad, it's tiring to have a meeting." Zhang Ningning looked at his father's tired appearance and asked with concern.

"It's not tiring to have a meeting." Zhang Guohua shook his head and smiled, but why be tired of the meeting, what makes him feel tired is the contradictions and differences at the meeting, the line of reform, the final formulation of a policy, is often the result of multi-party compromise and game, and this time the provincial and ministerial-level cadre meeting, there is also a certain process to warm up for the upcoming party congress, involving more sensitive personnel issues, related to the gains and losses of interests, but also related to the future direction of the Zhang family and even the Zhang family, how can Zhang Guohua not be tired, now, It is a bit strict to say that the Zhang family is already a big ship in the wind and rain, but if he, the captain, can't steer this big ship in the right direction, then he will sail against the current, and if he doesn't advance, he will retreat.

Chen Xing listened to Zhang Guohua's words, and at this time it suddenly dawned on him that he had forgotten the provincial and ministerial meetings held in the past few days.

"By the way, Chen Xing, have you signed up for graduate studies?" Zhang Guohua asked suddenly.

"I forgot about it, and when I got busy, I forgot about it." Chen Xing shook his head and smiled.

"It's the end of July, and the new academic year is about to start again, whether it's at Nanzhou University or Jingcheng University, you should put this on the agenda." Zhang Guohua said solemnly, "In the future, the direction of our party will definitely be to implement elite government, high education, high quality, specialization will be the main characteristics of the future employment of people, especially young cadres, will pay more attention to these measures, those of you who are included in the list of reserve leading cadres training, each and every one of you will have great opportunities in the future." ”

"Dad, don't worry, I can't forget it this time, I'll write it down in my workbook first." Chen Xing said with a smile, but his heart moved, the list of reserve leading cadres to be trained? It was the first time he had heard Zhang Guohua say this, and listening to the literal meaning of his father-in-law, could it be that the central authorities were already focusing on inspecting and training a group of young cadres to prepare for the succession in the future?

Seeing that the old man didn't mean to say much, Chen Xing was awe-inspiring and didn't ask much, but he was faintly excited, and the old man's words had already shown that he was definitely on this list.

"Where's your mother?" Zhang Guohua looked at his daughter.

"She just went back." Zhang Ningning said with a smile, "I said I was going back to stew chicken soup, Dad, you can drink a little later to replenish your body." ”

"That chicken soup is for you, what kind of chicken soup do I make up for a big man." Zhang Guohua shook his head and smiled, looking at his daughter lovingly, his eyes became extraordinarily soft, year after year, time is like water, and the crisp cry of his daughter croaking to the ground is still in his ears, watching his daughter grow up happily, this moment, his daughter has become a person who wants to be a mother, and he is about to become a grandfather, with two temples and gray hair.

"Old, old." Zhang Guohua muttered to himself, full of emotion.

"Dad, you're still young." Chen Xing said with a smile.

"The word young should be used to describe you, and the future belongs to you young people." Zhang Guohua sighed slightly, "Chen Xing, you have to fight." ”

"Dad, don't worry." Chen Xing's expression was solemn.

Looking at the white-haired old man in front of him, Chen Xing's heart was heavy, he could feel the ardent expectations contained in the old man's words just now, and the burden on his shoulders also felt a lot heavier, the old man may still have more than ten years of glory, but after all, he will grow old, and the Zhang family is impossible to return to the heyday when the old man was still there.