Early the next morning, the old man was tending to the flowers and plants in the yard, and not far from the courtyard, there was an old-fashioned tape recorder, which was playing the "Yellow River Cantata" by the great musician Xian Xinghai, and the old man hummed a few words from time to time.

Lu Jing was woken up by the tune of the Yellow River chorus, and this familiar tune suddenly reminded him of the warm feeling of living with his parents in the past. Since I entered high school, I haven't lived with my parents.

Parents are reluctant to move out on their own, but they prefer to see themselves grow up independently.

"Wake up so early!" Lu Jing looked at his watch sleepily, it was only half past seven, and he was in a good dream at this point.

The morning sunlight shines through the windows, and the neat restaurant looks like a painted painting.

After Lu Jing finished washing, Ms. Luo had already prepared breakfast. Rice porridge in a small pot, good white flour meat buns, fried golden fritters with aroma, boiled eggs with shells.

"Mom, why are there fritters?" Lu Jing asked as he bit the fritters in his hand. Frying fritters can be a lot of work.

"Do you like it? Mom made it for you, come, eat more eggs. Ms. Luo took an egg and put it on the small plate in front of Lu Jing.

Lu nodded his head, and his heart was warmed by his mother's love.

After breakfast, the old man said, "Follow me!" Slowly go upstairs. There is a red confidential telephone in the study on the second floor. The old man picked it up and dialed a number, said a few words, and soon connected to the eldest brother's phone. The eldest brother said a few words in the microphone and hung up. After about ten minutes, I called again.

The old man was only concerned about his eldest son's work on the phone, so he didn't say much, only said that Lu Jing wanted to talk to him.

"Xiaojing, ---" heard the eldest brother's gentle voice as usual from the microphone. A warm current surged in Lu Jing's heart, and he was uncontrollable excited, this was his eldest brother. After the death of the old man and his mother, the eldest brother has always taken good care of him. The eldest brother is like a father!

"Brother---" Lu Jingdao.

"Well, do you have something to tell me?"

"Brother, your cadre Yu Yi is suspected of corruption, his son Yu Feng drives a good car in Yenching University and goes in and out of luxury nightclubs, how can he be so rich as a department-level cadre?" Lu Jing threw out the rhetoric he had pondered last night.

"Maybe he has another channel. It doesn't have to be corruption. The eldest brother was silent on the phone for a while, and said in a very steady voice.

Lu Jing slapped another fierce medicine, "Brother, when I was eating hot pot outside the school on Tuesday, I met Liu Xiaoshan, who is the nephew of Liu Wei's family, he said that our Lu family will not be able to bounce for long, and we will find someone to clean me up in a few days." ”

"Hehe, Xiaojing, you didn't beat him, did you?" The eldest brother laughed happily on the phone.

Lu Jinggan laughed twice, the eldest brother knew his temperament very well, if Liu Xiaoshan's kid really dared to say this in front of his eyes, he would definitely be beaten by himself. Lu Jing is just making up stories, he hasn't seen Liu Xiaoshan for months.

"Well, he said his uncle had some evidence and could bring you down in a few days. He'll settle accounts with me then. ”

"Really?" The eldest brother's tone finally changed a little. Lu Jing was overjoyed, and finally attracted the attention of his eldest brother. Their Lu family and Liu family have long had a knot, not only at the level of the old man, but also the relationship between the eldest brother and several nephews of the Liu family is not very good.

Lu Jing continued: "Brother, I always feel that there is a conspiracy against you. Why did Shiqiao Town always have an accident, after the New Year, you went down 4 times this time. The real policy of benefiting the people, why are there always people resisting, in my opinion, it is that some people are fanning the flames, lest the world will not be chaotic.

If Yu Yi really has a problem, Liu Weijia will definitely pour dirty water on you, I heard that he is a deputy director under the Ministry of Supervision, is it not easy for others to do something in the discipline inspection system?

Brother, I'm sure you won't have a problem with yourself.

The point is, if the Commission for Discipline Inspection wants to investigate you, you have to go back to the capital, then you won't be able to go down to Shiqiao Town again. If accidents continue to occur in Shiqiao Town, there will definitely be a lot of inconvenience for you to call and command, will it make things further ferment? Some of you in your ministry will be happy to see your subsistence policy fail. ”

There was silence on the phone, except for the faint sound of breathing. Lu Jing knew that the eldest brother was thinking. Obviously, the conspiracy he said was extremely subjective and speculative, and the operation of some key places was by no means as easy as Lu Jing said, but the problem was that it did have the possibility of being realized, and it had to be cautious.

Lu Jingwei was afraid that the eldest brother felt that he was not very credible after thinking about it, and said: "Brother, the chairman said, 'Do the worst in everything and work hard in the best direction'. I think it makes sense! ”

The eldest brother was silent for about ten minutes, and the old man had been drinking tea beside him, watching his youngest son "reasoning", and his eyes became more and more pleased.

"I see!" The eldest brother said calmly on the phone.

In just four words, Lu Jing actually had a sense of relief. Since I turned 18 yesterday, all my worries and anxieties have dissipated like boiling water poured over a thick layer of snow at 100 degrees Celsius.

For the political level of the eldest brother, Lu Jing has unreserved trust, I remember that the eldest brother has experienced more strange turmoil in the future in the Huan Hai, didn't he also come over one by one? The eldest brother said, "Got it", and it was fine.

The eldest brother smiled on the phone: "Xiaojing, yes, I have grown up." Give my dad the phone, and I'll have a few words with him. ”

Lu Jing handed the phone to the old man with a smile on his face, "Dad, big brother wants to talk to you." The old man smiled and nodded, and took the phone.

Lu Jing took the teacup to a cup of Da Hong Pao and drank tea in a big gulp. I was nervous and worried just now, and my throat was a little dry. It's still a bit stressful to lie in front of the big brother who has always been respected.

…….

White clouds and blue sky, gentle breeze. The Hongqi car drove steadily and fast, driving on the streets of the capital. Lu Jing, who was in a good mood, couldn't help but think of Liu Bannong's poems.

"There were faint clouds in the sky

There's something majestic on the ground."

When the old man was on the phone with his eldest brother just now, Lu Jing vaguely heard a person's name. I have the impression that it belongs to the discipline inspection system.

Although he didn't know how the eldest brother planned to operate this matter, Lu Jing completely let go of this part of his mind. He still has a curious place, that is, where did the huge amount of 2 million go.

The whereabouts of the huge sum of 2 million in his previous life are unknown, even if the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection gives a conclusion, there are still many people who do not have a very good opinion of the eldest brother and think that he is a problematic cadre. If it weren't for the eldest brother's outstanding ability, he might not have been able to surface in fifteen years.

Hongqi car parked steadily at the intersection of Hudong Road and Xin'an Road, a large number of plane trees were planted next to the wide bluestone brick sidewalk, and the dense leaves covered the morning sun, making Hudong Road very quiet and full of poetry.

The old man took a special detour to send Lu Jing to Hudong Road in a car, thinking that he was very satisfied with his cousin.

"Your eldest brother praised you a few words. There is progress! The old man lowered the window and said something to him, then rolled it up and drove away.

Lu Jing waved at the red flag car that was slowly moving away. In the old man's heart, the weight of the eldest brother's sentence is lower than his own ten. Lu Jing was unconsciously depressed, this was because the eldest brother had been extremely good and capable since he was a child. Since entering the official career, he has been singing all the way, and he is an extremely dazzling political star, and he has temporarily emerged in the entire faction.

Lu Jing took out the cigarette that came from home, lit one, smoked it slowly, and walked to the door of No. 4 Middle School.

He didn't notice that on the other side of the intersection, a man and a woman happened to see him. The boy is slender and handsome. The girl has a pure appearance and outstanding temperament. Both of them were carrying schoolbags and were students of Dinghai No. 4 Middle School.

Watching Lu Jing slowly and leisurely walk on the side of the wide tree-lined road in front of him, the boy's eyes showed an unconcealable shock.

….

To the left of the gate of the fourth middle school is Swallow Mountain, diagonally opposite the Yinghua International School, which is a private aristocratic school.

Today is Saturday, and the morning self-study time is 9 o'clock. It's almost ten o'clock now, and Lu Jing is sitting at a wooden table outside a small bubble tea shop at the school gate smoking, and the blue parasol helps him block out the sun. With a lit cigarette in his hand, he looked at the garden-like gate of Anglo-Chinese International School and was silently distracted.

His first love, Li Feifei, was studying in it.

Lu Jing and Li Feifei have been married to each other since they were children, and the two studied in the same school in junior high school. At that time, Lu Jing was extremely infatuated with Li Feifei, but Li Feifei didn't look down on Lu Jing. The relationship between the two slowly faded as Lu Jing studied in No. 4 Middle School. The two also meet every year during the Chinese New Year.

After Li Feifei graduated from high school, she went to the United States to study, and Lu Jing went south to Jiangzhou to study, and the two never met. Later, the Lu family declined, but Li Feifei's father rose steadily, and his steps were extremely steady. This doll is naturally gone.

Lu Jing vaguely knew that the eldest brother was very dissatisfied with the Li family's approach, and once expressed his stance on this matter, "My personal marriage can be a political marriage, but Xiaojing doesn't need it." I take care of him! ”

Lu Jing snuffed out the cigarette butt and walked into the fourth middle school.

Face is not given to you by others, but earned by yourself. In his previous life, Lu Jing was a standard mixed eating and waiting for death type before his father's death. A woman as good as Li Feifei definitely doesn't look down on him.

The life trajectories of the two are like two intersecting lines, and after a brief intersection, they go farther and farther.

The campus is very quiet, Lu Jing's thinking is far and near, back in 1996, there are too many opportunities to grasp, he also later also led a large company, he is no stranger to business operations. It's just that for a while, he hasn't figured out the starting point.

In the classroom of the seventh class of the second year of high school, everyone was quietly studying on their own. The sound of the pages turning, the sound of the pen performing calculations on the manuscript paper, and the occasional sound of classmates cooing and drinking water constitute a song that inspires people to move up.

The pen rustled on the letterhead, and the beautiful regular script appeared on the paper one by one, and Lu Jing wrote the major events in his memory while pondering. He is afraid that some things will be forgotten after a long time.

"Hey, Lu Jing, someone is looking for you outside!" Yu Fat, who was at the same table, stabbed Lu Jing's waist with his hand and pointed out the door with one hand.

"Who?" Lu Jing didn't raise his head and continued to write.

Yu Fatzi chuckled and said, "Yang Wanting's nemesis, the daughter of the legendary deputy mayor, Lin Rong." Seeing that Lu Jing had no reaction, Yu Fatzi continued: "Lu Jing, I heard that you wrote a note to Yang Xiaohua in Class 5?" I think that chick is here to trouble you. I heard that Yang Wanting was covered by her. But, buddy, I'm bullish on you. If you can catch up with the 'Ice Beauty' school girl, I invite you to have a meal at the Blue Brocade Hotel. ”

Lanjin Hotel is a famous four-star hotel in Dinghai, and Yu Fatzi's family will not let him squander it so much even if he has a little money. Lu Jingfu smiled and looked outside the classroom, and sure enough, a girl wearing the blue school uniform of No. 4 Middle School, a little chubby, and a round face was looking at Lu Jing outside the classroom. Apparently she had already called someone to pass the message, and wanted to get herself out.

Lu Jing put away the written stationery, put it in the desk, and said, "Where did you get so many 'heard'?" ”

Standing up and walking out of the position, Lu Jing thought about it, took out a pack of unopened special red pandas from the pocket of his pants, handed it to Yu Zhicheng, and said very seriously: "Thank you!" ”

When Lu Jing saw Yu Zhicheng, who was close to him, he would think of the green years in the past, and there were many sighs. Those youthful and frivolous, beautiful memories are no longer yellowed paintings, but are truly presented in front of him.

He remembered that Yu Zhicheng later took over his father's tobacco and liquor company, and he did a good job. It's just that the connection between the two was slowly cut off.

"Ah, good smoke!" Yu Zhicheng took the cigarette and smiled, but he didn't know what Lu Jing thanked him. But he immediately recognized the quality of the smoke.

…

"Lu Jing, you're a bit too much, aren't you?" Outside the classroom, Lin Rong put her hands on the stone railing in the corridor and questioned Lu Jing with full aura.