After a thirteen-hour flight, the plane landed at Dulles International Airport in the United States.

Li Xiaoning walked out of the airport and looked back and forth among the crowd of people picking up the airport for a long time, only to find that a thin young man was holding an A4 piece of paper with the words "Pick up Li Xiaoning" written in Chinese characters.

Li Xiaoning couldn't help frowning, the position of assistant military attache is not high, and it is definitely not low, although it is impossible for Labor Ambassador Feng Hong and Military Attache Lin Zuotao to greet him in person, but at least there should be a deputy military attache or something, right? If you don't have the worst of all, you have to have a secretary or military attache assistant or something like that, right? But in front of me, there is no boundary, and the specifications of this welcome can be described as shabby, and even his name is wrong.

Although Li Xiaoning didn't care about the details of these ushers, he could see from the people who greeted him that the senior management of the entire embassy in the United States did not want to see him. The reason why I say this is because I am an assistant to the military attaché, and I am under the dual leadership of the ambassador and the military attaché, but if there is one person who welcomes his way, the current situation will not happen.

Li Xiaoning didn't know where he had offended Feng Hong and Lin Zuotao, because he hadn't even seen these two people face to face, so it was impossible to offend them. The more likely explanation is that Feng Hong and Lin Zuotao are both from their own hostile camps, but this is also unlikely. Because Li Xiaoning does not have his own camp yet, if he insists on dividing into factions, he should be regarded as a faction of the Guan family. However, he came to the United States to take up his post, which was arranged by Zhang Yunpeng and Zhang Lao, and it was impossible for Zhang Yunpeng to send himself to the hands of the Guan family's opponents to be punished.

After thinking for a while, Li Xiaoning shook his head, he couldn't figure it out, forget it, the matter has come to this point, and he can only take one step at a time, after all, he came to the United States to flee a little bit, and he has no diplomatic experience, so he has to rely on Feng Hong and Lin Zuotao to take care of. As long as these two people don't touch the bottom line of their principles, they should still not worry about these subsections.

Thinking of this, Li Xiaoning walked over quickly, patted the shoulder of the young man who was leaning on the pillar of the airport hall weakly, looking around boredly, and smiled: "Hello, comrade, you are here to pick me up, right?" ”

"Are you Li Xiaoning?" The young man asked, raising an eyebrow.

"You're a staff member of the Huaxia Embassy in the United States, right?" Li Xiaoning touched his nose and asked.

"yes. Are you Li Xiaoning? The young man said again.

"If you are from the embassy, then I am Li Xiaoning." Li Xiaoning said with a wry smile.

"Why are you so young?" The young man blurted out.

"What? Has anyone sued you or me for being very old? Li Xiaoning asked with a smile.

"No, no." The young man hurriedly apologized and said, "I mean, you are an assistant to the military attaché, and you have to be a lieutenant colonel, right?" At least thirty or so. I really didn't expect you to be so young, you, you're twenty-five? ”

"Twenty-six." Li Xiaoning smiled and said, "I'm a major, not a lieutenant colonel." ”

"That's pretty good, too." The young man said excitedly, "By the way, my name is Zhou Peng." Staff officer of the Military Attaché's Office. You call me Xiao Zhou, if you have anything to do in the future, just greet me, please take care of me. ”

There is a reason why Zhou Peng's attitude suddenly changed 180 degrees. This young man was also from a rural area, and after being admitted to the military academy, because he was relatively good in his studies and strong in politics, he was sent to work in the military attache office of the Chinese Embassy in the United States. This kind of glory once made him feel very honored, and he was also full of ambition and wanted to do something big.

But when he arrived in the United States, he found out that it was not the case at all. His professional knowledge is useless here, it is difficult to excel in his work, and he has no connections and background, so he has not been appreciated by his superiors. I worked for a year as a staff officer, I worked for two years as a staff officer, and now I have been a staff officer for five years, and I am still a staff officer. His ambition has long been worn out, and he has to get by with the mentality of being a monk for a day and hitting the clock for a day, and he is more and more untreated by his superiors, and gradually becomes a marginalized figure in the embassy.

In fact, at the beginning, he couldn't lift his spirits for today's pick-up task, and his superiors sent himself to pick up such a person with no status to pick up the plane, which showed that this Li Xiaoning was also a figure who was not treated by his superiors, and he was an unlucky person like himself.

But when he saw Li Xiaoning, his heart suddenly became hot, because Li Xiaoning was one year younger than him, but he had already become an assistant military attache with the rank of major.

Although Li Xiaoning is one year younger than Zhou Peng, he has worked little by little from the grassroots officialdom in the past few years, and his experience and knowledge are by no means comparable to Zhou Peng, who only sits in the office. He immediately saw through Zhou Peng's careful thoughts.

But Li Xiaoning does not reject Zhou Peng's mentality, which at least shows that Zhou Peng still wants to be motivated, for this kind of person, if the guidance is correct, he is still very promising, and the most afraid is that he is not self-motivated, so he can't be cultivated no matter how he cultivates.

And Li Xiaoning is here, it can be said that he is not familiar with life, although he has a few friends in the business world, but he has no acquaintances in the embassy, and he also needs to do his best to form his own team. Although he came to the United States this time, although he had the element of fleeing, he did not want to hide obediently at all. There was blood in his veins, not stagnant water.

Although Zhou Peng, a young man, has been a low-level staff officer for several years, it doesn't mean that he is incapable, sometimes if you want to make some achievements, you also need a mentor who can point out the direction. At the very least, the people who can be sent to the embassy in the United States can't be far behind, besides, judging from the table just now, Zhou Peng is still very discerning.

Thinking of this, Li Xiaoning shook Zhou Peng's hand vigorously and said: "Comrade Zhou Peng, you should have been working at the Huaxia Embassy in the United States for many years, and you should be very familiar with the situation in the United States......

Zhou Peng was overjoyed, Li Xiaoning's words just now were tantamount to acquiescing in his overtures, and how could a person who could smoke special Chinese cigarettes be an ordinary person, so he hurriedly patted his chest and said: "Assistant Li, I have been working in the Huaxia Embassy in the United States for five years, and there are few people in the entire embassy who are more familiar with the situation in the United States than me. Assistant Li, if you have anything to do, just tell me, I haven't drunk the good tea of the motherland and smoked the cigarettes of the motherland for a few days, I really miss it, and I have to go to your office to fight the autumn breeze......"

The two of them talked and laughed out of the airport, and a black Audi sedan with the Chinese flag was parked at the gate, Zhou Peng stepped forward quickly to open the rear door, skillfully covered the top of the canopy with his right arm for protection, and asked Li Xiaoning to get into the car.