After this trouble, relatives naturally couldn't leave, Li Xiaoning first called the insurance company to assess the damage, and then sent the car to the 4S shop for maintenance, and worked all day, and when he got home, it was almost time for dinner.

As soon as Li Xiaoning walked into the house, he saw his mother standing there with a courier envelope in her hand, her face thoughtful. The envelope had been opened, and inside was a big red invitation. Seeing Li Xiaoning coming in, he said, "Xiaoning, look at it, it was just sent from Yanjing." ”

Li Xiaoning took the invitation suspiciously, opened it and found that it was a birthday banquet invitation, and the people invited were Li Weijie and Wu Yue'e, and it seemed that the other party did not know the news of his father's death. But the host of the birthday banquet and the person who sent the invitation surprised Li Xiaoning.

Those were two heavy names -- Guan Pengju and Guan Jianguo. In fact, Guan Pengju is a name that few people don't know, that is the founding father of the country who has made great military achievements, although he has long since retired, but as one of the few still alive veterans of the country, until now he is also the master who can make the land of Sijiu City tremble by stomping his feet. As for Guan Jianguo, Li Xiaoning is more familiar now, that is Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Seeing this, Li Xiaoning was puzzled, because their family has always been poor, and they have never heard of any kinship with the Guan family, why is Guan Pengju's ninetieth birthday meeting inviting them now?

Looking at the question in her son's eyes, Wu Yue'e slowly said the twists and turns. It turned out that in the seventies and eighties of the last century, a decade-long self-defense counterattack broke out on the border. Just when the war was about to end, Guan Jianguo was sent by his father to the front line to be gilded and served as the commander of the reconnaissance company, while Li Xiaoning's father Li Weijie was in the same company.

Although Guan Jianguo is the second generation of officials and the younger son, he is particularly brave in battle, and even goes deep behind enemy lines several times. Once encountered an enemy ambush, first a mine, then a machine gun and a rocket launcher, almost all the members of the squad were killed, and Guan Jianguo was also directly stunned by the mortar shells that exploded at close range.

As the saying goes, there are four irons in life: we have been through the window together, we have carried a gun together, we have prostituted together, and we have shared the stolen goods together. Li Weijie not only carried a gun with Guan Jianguo, but also was injured together, coupled with this great life-saving grace, so both Guan Pengju and Guan Jianguo are grateful to Li Weijie. Old Man Guan even said: As long as it is a request within his ability, whether it is seeking officials or money, Li Weijie will mention it casually. But the people of that era were very simple, Li Weijie not only did not mention any requests, but after being demobilized from the army due to injury, he returned to his hometown in a low-key manner, and did not mention a word about this matter for the rest of his life.

Li Weijie didn't mention it, but the Guan family didn't dare to forget, the old man Guan was a person with clear grievances, and told the whole family to take care of the Li family, so for a long time afterward, whenever there was a New Year's holiday, Guan Jianguo had to come to the door in person to express his gratitude, and for a long time, the Guan and Li families were very close. Once when the two good brothers sat down to drink together, they decided on the spot: if the two have children in the future, if they are both boys, they will become brothers; If they are all girls, they are sisters; If there is a man and a woman, they are married.

Coincidentally, the children born to the two families later happened to be a boy and a girl, Li Weijie gave birth to a son, Li Xiaoning, and Guan Jianguo gave birth to a daughter, named Guan Yalin.

If things had been going down, Li Xiaoning wouldn't have to pay so much struggle now. However, things in the world are never truly fair, although Li Weijie and Guan Jianguo are both heroes who have made military exploits, but because of their different backgrounds, their subsequent development circumstances are also very different. After Li Weijie was demobilized, he has been working as a farmer in his hometown; However, it didn't take long for Guan Jianguo to work in state organs, and then he rose to prominence all the way, and now he has become the vice minister of foreign affairs.

Although Guan Jianguo attaches great importance to feelings, as his official position gets higher and higher, he is subject to more and more restrictions, officialdom has been like this since ancient times, sometimes you don't want to hold an official stand, otherwise you will be despised by other officials. Therefore, although Guan Jianguo didn't want to be separated from Li Weijie, he was also forced by the shape and gradually went farther. It turned out to be a personal greeting by himself, and then it was slowly changed to a telephone greeting, and then it was slowly changed to a secretary to call for him, and then he directly cut off contact. As for what children's doll pro, it is even more needless to talk about.

However, Li Xiaoning's parents are not people who are keen on power, so they didn't expect anything, and they didn't feel lost in the face of this situation, they just lived with peace of mind and kept silent about the relationship with the Guan family, so even Li Xiaoning didn't know that his family could still have anything to do with the founding fathers.

Now, Mr. Guan is ninety years old, and he is about to see Marx when he sees that he is about to meet Marx, Guan Jianguo still wants to go to the next level in his political career, so he took the opportunity of his father's birthday to invite relatives and friends, on the one hand, to make the old man lively, and on the other hand, he also wanted to take the opportunity to make a little more political capital. When drawing up the invitation list, Mr. Guan remembered Li Weijie, the great benefactor, and asked Guan Jianguo to invite all the Li family members to thank him in person, so that there was such an invitation.

Originally, Li Weijie had passed away, and the family backgrounds of the Guan family and the Li family were very different, Wu Yue'e didn't want to join in the excitement, but now Li Xiaoning chose to enter politics, as a mother, Wu Yue'e couldn't help but feel a little lively in her heart. If you can take the opportunity to participate in Guan Pengju's birthday banquet and find an opportunity to mention Li Xiaoning's matter to Guan Jianguo, with the power of the Guan family, there is no need to help too much, as long as you mention it gently, Li Xiaoning will also benefit a lot.

After listening to his mother's narration, Li Xiaoning was also a little difficult to choose for a while, on the one hand, his proud personality made him not want to do this kind of begging-like thing, on the other hand, he did understand that if he could get the help of the Guan family, his career would definitely be much smoother. At the same time, he unconsciously remembered the hint given to him by the "divine appearance" Li Xingfeng before, which seemed to be the matter he was talking about. There is no doubt that this is an opportunity.

To go or not, Li Xiaoning is really a little difficult to choose, fortunately, there is still a period of time before the birthday banquet, and he can slowly think about it in the long run, so he did not continue to talk about this matter with his mother, but put the invitation aside and talked to his mother about some interesting things in his work. The death of his father made Li Xiaoning feel the preciousness of family affection even more, his mother is not young, and he has been away for a long time, if he doesn't seize this limited time to take care of his knees and let his mother enjoy the joy of family, then his son is really unfilial.

Early the next morning, Li Xiaoning had breakfast, then rode his bicycle to the town police station, he wanted to ask how Qin Hui smashed his car and how he dealt with it. In fact, until now, he has not received a notice from the police station, and he knows in his heart that it will be over. He couldn't tolerate this ending in such a blur. Before going out, he brought the invitation card of the Guan family with him.

Coincidentally, the person on duty at the police station happened to be the deputy director of Ma who went to the police yesterday.

"Deputy Director Ma, I have a question I want to consult." Under the guidance of the police on duty downstairs, Li Xiaoning walked into Deputy Director Ma's office.

"Oh, it's you? What's the problem? Deputy Director Ma rolled his eyes and stayed on the computer again. After he came back yesterday, he had already inquired about Li Xiaoning's identity, but he was just the mayor of a small township seven or eight hundred miles away, and he had no background in the local area. Therefore, today's attitude is more arrogant.

"How did Qin Hui deal with the incident of beating people and smashing cars yesterday?" Li Xiaoning said with the anger in his chest.

"Oh...... We didn't see this in person, and we couldn't figure out whether your car was smashed by Qin Hui or not, and we couldn't care about this matter. It's better for you to negotiate it yourself. Qin Hui, I've already let him go, what's wrong? Didn't he go to you? Deputy Director Ma sneered.

"Qin Hui and his gang are clearly gangs with the nature of the underworld, and they should be punished by law. You just let him go so lightly, I can't understand it. Li Xiaoning said word by word with a dark face.

"Huh...... It's still a young man! Deputy Director Ma took a cigarette from the desk and lit it without smiling.

Li Xiaoning frowned and asked, "What do you mean by this?" ”

Deputy Director Ma spit out a smoke ring and said, "I see that you are also a person in the system, so I will tell you the truth." You still think you're unlucky in this matter, the strong dragon can't overpower the head snake, and it won't do you any good if you make things too stiff. ”

Li Xiaoning didn't get angry and laughed: "Oh? I really have to ask Deputy Director Ma to give me a lesson, and if things go on, it won't be good for me. ”

"Why don't you enlighten this kid?" Deputy Director Ma said with a dissatisfied expression, "I'll tell you the truth." Qin Hui is the son of Mayor Qin and the nephew of Mayor Qin, not to mention that he only smashed your car, he will beat you again, and you can only be sideways. This is the social reality, some things are very helpless, and some things are not transferred by our will. Little comrade, when you slowly mature, you will know that there is no fairness in this world. ”

Li Xiaoning looked at his gloomy face and said coldly: "Deputy Director Ma, you are so blatantly protecting a bully like Qin Hui? Are you worthy of the solemn and sacred badge you wear on your head? ”

"It's not your turn to teach me a lesson!" Deputy Director Ma said with a cold face, "Is there anything else?" It's okay to leave, I still have something to do. ”

Li Xiaoning knew that it was useless to be angry with such a straw bag, so he could only reluctantly turn around and leave. When he walked out of the gate of the police station, a large dark cloud obscured the rising sun, shrouding the solemn police badge above the gate of the police station in a shadow.