This is the third year of the liberation of Beijing, and it is in the month of Layue, and it is about to celebrate the Spring Festival, this day is a Sunday, the weather is sunny and warm, Wang Yunqing asked his brother-in-law Feng Xuanxia to visit his friend Huang Boyang after lunch. Wang Yunqing's car has not been driven since the liberation, and was sold to an old car dealership, Feng Xuanxia works in the national water conservancy department, and the government has prepared a special car for him, and Feng Xuanxia's car will pick up Wang Yunqing after a while.

The car drove into the very quiet North Long Street, parked in front of a blue-gray gatehouse, this is Huang Boyang's home, the two knocked on the door of the Huang family, the door was opened by Huang Boyang's lover, Huang Boyang's lover is a thick skeleton Shandong woman, in Beijing for many years still speak a strong Shandong flavor of Beijing dialect, she shouted to the main room: "Lao Huang, there are guests at home!" ”

Wang Yunqing and Feng Xuanxia came to Huang Boyang's house for the first time, and the two of them carefully looked at the courtyard, Huang Boyang's home was an exquisite triple courtyard, with three main rooms, three south rooms and two east rooms, and the west side was the courtyard wall and house gate facing the street. There is a wooden trellis in the courtyard, on which is a long-standing vine, and it has just snowed two days ago, and there is a snowman wearing a straw hat in the middle of the yard. This courtyard is small but very quiet. Huang Boyang was reading intently in the study at this time, and he hurriedly walked out of the door after hearing the shout.

Huang Boyang was very happy when he saw that it was Wang Yunqing and Feng Xuanxia, two old friends, and hurriedly invited them to the house. Wang Yunqing pointed to the snowman in the courtyard and jokingly asked, "Brother Boyang, you are still childlike, how can this snowman you build be a one-eyed dragon?" With that, he bent down to pick up a briquette that had fallen on the ground and pressed it to the spot of the snowman's eye.

Huang Boyang was happy; "This snowman was piled up by Tingting yesterday, this careless girl, the snowman doesn't know if he drops an eye." The three of them talked and laughed and entered the living room.

After the three of them sat down, Mrs. Huang served fragrant hot tea, Wang Yunqing knew that this was Longjing tea as soon as he smelled the tea, he took a sip of tea and then nodded and said, "Not bad!" It is a good dragon well. Why do you drink Longjing too? I remember you used to drink jasmine tea! ”

Huang Boyang said: "I drink tea, that's actually what it is, I drink flower tea, green tea, oolong tea, and I drink it." The Longjing I made today is specially reserved for the two of you, and an old comrade-in-arms sent it to me from Hangzhou to Beijing for a meeting, 100% of the top grade, how about it? Incense it! ”

Feng Xuanxia spoke: "Lao Huang, since you think so much about our brothers, then you can pack this Longjing and send it to us!" ”

"That's no problem! My wife divided the tea leaves into two packets for the first two days, and I have already left them for you. ”

"That's great! I thank you first, and I want to thank my sister-in-law. Feng Xuanxia snorted haha.

Wang Yunqing pointed to the dim sum box and wine bottle on the table and said, "Let's exchange this gift for your high-grade Longjing, it's really a bit of a brick throw!" Ha ha! That's a good deal! Wang Yunqing also followed suit.

The three old brothers were very affectionate when they met. After Huang Boyang's lover refilled the tea for the guests, they also sat together and chatted.

Wang Yunqing saw that Huang Boyang's spirit was a little tired, so he asked, "Lao Huang, you have been very busy with work recently, right?" I see you don't have a good look on your face. ”

Huang Boyang said: "Recently, we have been very busy, and some major historical cases have not yet been solved in the anti-counterterrorism work, and now we are concentrating our efforts on working overtime. ”

Wang Yunqing said a little anxiously: "Lao Huang, why can't you catch that Ma Liangchen?" He did a lot of evil but escaped punishment, and when I think of him slipping through the net, I feel uncomfortable! ”

"Don't worry! Ma Liangchen can't run, it's only a matter of time before he catches him! I am personally responsible for supervising his case, but to tell you the truth, there are no important clues in his case so far. However, I analyze that he may be hiding in a city in the northeast. ”

Feng Xuanxia said: "There is a way that Skynet is restored and not leaked, this kid can't escape!" ”

"I hope so!" Wang Yunqing responded.

During the chat, Wang Yunqing asked Huang Tingting again: "Why is Tingting not at home today, and is she still at work on Sunday?" ”

"My girl is busy all day long, she is now the propaganda minister of the Municipal Education Bureau, and today she said that she is going to several colleges." Huang Boyang said.

Wang Yunqing praised: "I became the Minister of Propaganda at a young age. Your future is limitless! ”

Huang Boyang's lover said: "Tingting is busy all day long, she never rests on Sundays, and she may only go home when she eats at night today." ”

Huang Boyang asked Wang Yunqing, "Hey, Brother Wang, you ask Tingting, I also want to ask you about Hongju's current situation, he has been gone for almost three years, how is it now?" ”

He said that Hainan is a backward and remote area, and he was sent by the army to support local work, and the work was carried out relatively complicated and slow, and he did not have time to ask for leave to return to Beijing to visit relatives, and the higher-level leaders would not approve it.

"Yes, Tingting said that Hongju asked her to go to Hainan in the letter, but Beijing and Hainan are too far apart, it is said that you have to take a train to Wuhan and then take a river ferry to cross the Yangtze River, and then take a train to Guangzhou after crossing the river, and then take a sea ferry from Guangzhou to Haikou, and then take a car to Haikou to get to where Hongju is staying now."

Feng Xuanxia hurriedly stopped Huang Boyang and said, "Old Huang, why did I hear you say tongue twisters!" ”

Wang Yunqing said: "Xuanxia, the transportation from Beijing to Hainan is really so inconvenient, anyway, it will take half a month to go back and forth." ”

Huang Boyang continued: "So! Do you think Tingting, a workaholic, is willing to waste a lot of time on the road? Huang Boyang continued: "I asked Tingting how far her relationship with Hongju has developed, and Tingting said that at this stage, she can only pass books between the two places, and she doesn't know when she will be able to meet, so she can't talk about any development." Huang Boyang shook his head and said.

Huang Boyang's lover said to Wang Yunqing: "Mr. Wang, don't worry, Tingting and I said behind my back that no matter how long she and Hongju have been separated, the two of them will always come together." ”

"These two children are a natural pair, a pair on the ground, and I hope they can finally come together. The elders of the children are friends who know the roots, what a good family affair this is, let them hurry up and get married! Don't go wrong! ”

Hearing Feng Xuanxia say this, Wang Yunqing and Huang Boyang both waved their hands again and again and said: No! Neither of these children is emotionally ambiguous.

Huang Boyang's lover smiled: "Let's not let the emperor be in a hurry, the eunuch is in a hurry!" Let them decide their own affairs. ”

Wang Yunqing and Feng Xuanxia sat for a while and were about to leave, "I haven't seen each other for a long time, you two will sit for a while!" In the evening, let's have a home-cooked meal, so that you can taste my lover's craftsmanship in making Shandong cuisine. Huang Boyang insisted on keeping two old friends for dinner, and the two no longer refused. When dinner was served, Huang Tingting returned home.

Huang Tingting greeted Wang Yunqing and Feng Xuanxia very affectionately after seeing them, Wang Yunqing looked at Huang Tingting happily and said, "Tingting, do you remember when I praised you for being a slim yellow flower girl?" You are now a mature and capable female national cadre. ”

"Thank you, uncle, for the compliment!" While talking, Huang Tingting poured wine for the two guests.

"Tingting, when will you be my daughter-in-law?"

Wang Yunqing asked Tingting with a big red face. She replied embarrassedly, "Don't worry, it's a matter of course." ”

"Okay, I'll just wait patiently. Tingting, I have a personal matter with you today and want to ask for your help. ”

"Uncle, just say, I'll do whatever I can!"

Wang Yunqing told Huang Tingting about the family's printing house, and wanted her to help connect with some business in the government or education field. Huang Tingting agreed, but she put forward two requirements: one is quality assurance, and the other is fair price. Seeing that Huang Tingting agreed to help, Wang Yunqing was very satisfied, Huang Boyang and others were also very happy, and several people chatted very happily while eating.

When Huang Tingting went to work the next day, she thought that her department had some promotional materials that needed to be printed, so she went to several offices under her command to collect them. In the corridor, she met Xue Mingyi, deputy director of the Propaganda Department, and Xue Mingyi told Huang Tingting: "The director made a phone call just now, and I didn't answer you when you weren't there, and he said that the Spring Festival is coming, and tomorrow night the Education Bureau will send a few female comrades to participate in a Spring Festival ball organized by the city, and accompany some old cadres and Soviet experts to dance ballroom dances." The bureau asked you to go by name, saying that it was a mission. ”

Huang Tingting said: "Okay, I will definitely go." ”

"I'll go tomorrow too, I just learned to dance, I'm addicted, and now the soles of my feet are itchy."

"Didn't you say you wanted lesbians to go?"

"I didn't say I wouldn't let gay men go! Do you think it's okay for me to go? ”

"It's your own business whether you go or not, make your own decisions, and it has nothing to do with me." Huang Tingting threw Xue Mingyi a word and left.

Xue Mingyi chased after him and said, "Minister Huang, I just want to learn ballroom dancing with you!" You've got to teach me! Huang Tingting walked into an office and didn't hear it.

In the evening, a grand dance party was being held in the splendid banquet hall of the Beijing Hotel, the band in the orchestra pit was playing a blues dance music, and a pair of dance partners on the dance floor were dancing happily in a rhythmic rhythm, among which the male dancers were basically middle-aged and elderly cadres and Soviet aid experts, and most of the female dance partners were young and beautiful girls from various state organs. Huang Tingting danced a few songs with a Soviet expert, and at the end of the song, she felt a little tired, so she politely said "Thank you!" to the Soviet expert! Good bye! "Just walk down. At this time, the band played a warm and cheerful waltz "Blue Danube", and several people came forward to invite Huang Tingting to dance, but Huang Tingting politely refused, she wanted to take a break.

Huang Tingting sat alone on the chair and looked at the people on the dance floor with the waltz with great interest, she found that one of the old men with white hair danced very hard, this old man was around sixty years old, with a ruddy face and a fat body, but when he danced, his body looked light and elegant, not much inferior to the young man, his petite dance partner was driven by him to rotate and dance with various tricks, which was very eye-catching among many dancers, and Huang Tingting admired them with relish.

"Minister Huang, you're here." Someone called her from the side. Huang Tingting turned her head to look, and it turned out that Xue Mingyi was greeting her. Xue Mingyi wore a well-fitting dark suit tonight with a brightly colored tie.

Huang Tingting felt strange and asked, "Xue Mingyi, today's ball is inviting a lesbian, are you really here?" ”

Xue Mingyi said: "I came with my father today. ”

"Oh, your father was at today's ball."

"Yes, you see it's the gray-haired man." Huang Tingting looked in the direction of his finger, and it turned out that the old man who danced very hard was Xue Mingyi's father.

"Minister Huang, you see that this song is not over yet, can I ask you to dance together?"

"No, I've already jumped several times, I'm sweating, and I want to take a break."

"Okay then, you rest, I'll ask you to jump later." After Xue Mingyi finished speaking, he sat down next to Huang Tingting, and the two chatted.

When the waltz ended, the dance host announced a ten-minute break, and the crowd walked off. Xue Mingyi stood up and greeted his father, the white-haired old man walked over to them after seeing it, and Huang Tingting hurriedly stood up and greeted him politely. Xue Mingyi introduced his colleague Huang Tingting to his father, and the old man shook hands with Huang Tingting enthusiastically, he said: "You are Comrade Huang Tingting, I have heard your name in the ministry, you are a very good cadre!" In the chat, Huang Tingting learned that this personable old man turned out to be Director Xue of the Ministry of Education.

Huang Tingting said to Director Xue: "Director Xue, I have been paying attention to you for a long time just now, your dancing is so good, you are old and strong, and you are not inferior to young people!" ”

Director Xue said: "Huang Tingting, don't praise me first, I have been paying attention to you for a long time, you are the best dancer and the most beautiful person among the lesbians today!" When Director Xue said this, Huang Tingting blushed. Director Xue saw that Huang Tingting was embarrassed, so he said again: "Really, I'm not complimenting you, you are indeed eye-catching and outstanding today." How else that Soviet expert is always dancing with you, I'm so jealous! If it weren't for the importance of international friendship, I would have snatched you from him a long time ago! He laughed.

Director Xue pulled Xue Mingyi and said to Huang Tingting: "My son always praises Minister Huang in front of me for how good and how capable, don't look at you young, I know that you are an old revolutionary, and please guide him and help him more in the future." ”

Xue Mingyi also said: "Yes, please also ask Minister Huang to care more about me and help me in normal times." ”

"Help each other and make progress together." Huang Tingting said politely.

While the three of them were chatting, the dance music sounded again, this time it was a rumba with a strong Latin style, and the cheerful and enthusiastic dance music seemed to urge people to hurry back to the dance floor. Director Xue said to his son: "Mingyi, you can dance with Comrade Huang Tingting." Xue Mingyi said that he couldn't dance Rumba, and Director Xue said to Huang Tingting: "Xiao Huang, then I will ask you to jump." He put his left arm on his chest, leaned forward slightly, made an elegant gesture and said, "Please!" ”

Director Xue and Huang Tingting walked to the middle of the dance floor and danced to the beautiful dance music. Huang Tingting felt that she was best at jumping Rumba, she didn't expect Director Xue to dance better, in the strong and cheerful rhythm of Rumba, Director Xue skillfully swung his hips and hips to change steps, and his fat body did not show the slightest clumsiness, not even a trace of panting. Although it was the first time for the two to be dance partners, the two of them cooperated tacitly with each move, dancing unrestrained and smooth in the strong and agitated melody of the rumba, and the sense of rhythm was very well grasped. Almost everyone on the field focused their eyes on these two people. During the dance, Huang Tingting asked strangely: "Director Xue, how do you dance so well?" ”

Director Xue said: "I danced when I was in Yan'an, and at that time, Yan'an often held balls, and the leaders often danced, and I learned to dance at that time. I was a ballroom dancing fan at that time, and I was a must-have at every dance. ”

Huang Tingting smiled and said, "I see, no wonder you dance so well!" ”

"You're a very good dancer, you're dancing with a very elegant demeanor, hey, little yellow, do you know how to do tango? I feel that tango dance has a lot of content, and dancing tango is a beautiful feeling. ”

"Yes, but not well."

"Okay, I'll take you to the dance later. , the more you dance, the more familiar you become, and if you don't dance, you will be rusty. ”

After Huang Tingting and Director Xue danced a few tunes, they danced a simple and easy slow-tempo blues with Xue Mingyi. In the process of dancing with Xue Mingyi, Xue Mingyi straightened his stiff body and walked clumsily, often guessing Huang Tingting's feet, but he hugged Huang Tingting's waist very tightly, which made Huang Tingting feel very uncomfortable, Huang Tingting told Xue Mingyi to gently put the tiger mouth of his right hand on the upper part of the female partner's waist, but Xue Mingyi's hand still hugged her waist tightly. After a dance, Xue Mingyi still wanted to dance with Huang Tingting again, but Huang Tingting was no longer interested in dancing with him.

At ten o'clock in the evening, the dance continued, it seemed that it was going to dance all night, Huang Tingting said that she wanted to go home, so she said goodbye to Director Xue, and Director Xue wanted to send Huang Tingting home first by car, Huang Tingting said that her family lived in the nearby Beichang Street, and she would go home for a walk. Director Xue saw that she refused to take the car, so he asked Xue Mingyi to give Huang Tingting a ride. When Director Xue sent Huang Tingting out of the banquet hall, he said to Huang Tingting: "There is a dance party next week, you must come." ”

Huang Tingting said: "Director Xue, in fact, I rarely dance, let's talk about it when the situation comes." Good bye! ”