Suddenly, there was a knock on the door of the room, and the voice of Xiao Wang, a staff member brought from the county, came: "County Magistrate Zhou, someone is looking for you." ”

Zhou Wen hurriedly got up and opened the door, standing in front of him were two well-dressed middle-aged men, with a humble smile on their faces, seeing Zhou Wen personally open the door, he quickly nodded and bowed: "Hello County Magistrate Zhou, we are from the Nantai County Liaison Office in Beijing." ”

"Oh~~" Zhou Wen suddenly realized, and shook hands with the two cordially: "My family, please inside." ”

The Nantai County Beijing Office has been established for many years, and later the state strictly ordered the abolition of the local government Beijing Office, so the Beijing Office has also been transformed into a liaison office, in fact, most of the county leaders are running in the city and the province, and there is not much to do on the central side, but the liaison office can never be withdrawn.

Therefore, the Beijing Liaison Office does not have much oil and water, on the contrary, it is a chore, living in a small hotel, receiving a meager subsidy, and dealing with those difficult people all day long, which is far worse than sitting in an office in the county.

These two are the unit-level cadres of the Nantai County Political and Legal Committee and the county government, and they have been stationed for a long time to receive visits, and this time the county magistrate Zhou went to Beijing, and as the chief and deputy directors of the Nantai County Liaison Office in Beijing, they naturally wanted to come to visit.

Zhou Wen talked with the two of them very enthusiastically for a while, and the phone rang again, Zhou Wen answered the phone, hung up a few times, and said: "There are some things on the funeral committee, I have to go over to handle it, you sit, go back and eat together in the evening." ”

The two cadres of the liaison office hurriedly got up and said goodbye, saying that they would not be troublesome, and they would report to the county magistrate Zhou when they were free, and if there was anything needed, they would come with a phone call, and Zhou Wenlian said thank you, and personally sent them out of the door, and when he came back, he saw four Chinese cigarettes and four bottles of Wuliangye in the corner, and he couldn't help but wonder, it seems that the consciousness of these two cadres is very high, and they can take proper care of it in the future.

The call just now was from Liu Ziguang, inviting Zhou Wen to attend a banquet, it is said that the level is relatively high, and he can get to know some useful big people, Zhou Wen is very excited, but the time is still early, and he has to do another thing before that.

took Xiao Wang out to take a taxi, went straight to Haidian District, came to a community downstairs to make a call, not much effort upstairs down a young man, early twenties, like most college students, not at all inconspicuous, but Zhou Wen was very polite to him: "Hello Xu Ning, I am Zhou Wen, entrusted by your father to come to see you." ”

Xu Ning held his glasses, looked Zhou Wen up and down, and said in his heart that this is the legendary young and promising county magistrate Zhou, who looks a few years older than himself, and his father even asked him to call him Uncle Zhou, which is simply laughable and generous.

He stretched out his hand very reservedly and said, "Hello County Magistrate Zhou, I am fortunate to meet you, what is it, go upstairs and sit down." But looking at the posture, there was no intention to invite Zhou Wen as a guest.

Zhou Wen said: "No, let's go have a meal, and by the way, I will introduce you to a few friends, which will probably be beneficial to you in finding a job." ”

Xu Ning thought about it and agreed, got into the taxi, Zhou Wen instructed the driver to go to the East Asia Hotel, and then chatted with Xu Ning about family life, and asked about the convenience of learning, Xu Ning is the son of Secretary Xu of the county party committee, and is a senior in a college in the capital, and he is about to graduate, the job has not yet been settled, and there is no way to go to graduate school. Therefore, when Secretary Xu entrusted Zhou Wen to enter Beijing, he persuaded his son by the way.

Xu Ning had a chance to deal with Zhou Wen, his mind had already flown to the clouds, he had been in college for four years, and his heart had long been wild, so it was a fantasy to let him go back to the township of Nantai County to be a civil servant, but recently the old man cut off his financial resources, otherwise he would not have taken care of the young county magistrate.

Zhou Wen also knew that Xu Ning's mind was not on this, he was just doing his duty, chatting all the way without nutrition, and finally arrived at the East Asia Hotel, the three of them got out of the car and sat in the lobby for a while, Liu Ziguang came down with a little effort, and greeted with a smile: "Zhou Wen, you have arrived, who is this little brother?" ”

Zhou Wen didn't hide it from him, and introduced: "This is Secretary Xu's youngest son, who is in college in the capital and brought out to see the world." ”

Hearing Liu Ziguang's Jiangbei dialect, Xu Ning immediately didn't take this person to heart, secretly thinking that this person must be an entrepreneur from Jiangbei or something, eating and socializing with these scumbag people, it is really torture, but Zhou Wen didn't give him living expenses, so he had to endure it.

Liu Ziguang looked at his watch and said, "It's almost time, the traffic jam is serious, let's get out early." ”

Then the group went out of the hotel gate, two black and shiny sedans drove over, Zhou Wen and Xu Ning were all bright, the car in front was an Audi A8 at the beginning of Beijing A86, and the one in the back was even more awesome, and the front of the Mercedes-Benz S-class sedan was a diplomatic license plate with red letters on a black background.

The front is Hu Qingsong's car, and the back is the diplomatic vehicle of the West Sadamoa Embassy, last time Liu Ziguang promised to invest 500,000 yuan to renovate the embassy, and the non-imported vehicles with more than displacement have made Ambassador Jose quite satisfied, but I didn't expect that what was sent later was Mercedes-Benz S35O, which simply made the embassy overjoyed, and the frequency of driving in and out near Sanlitun has greatly increased.

Zhou Wen stabbed Liu Ziguang and said in a low voice: "With such a big show, I didn't prepare." ”

Liu Ziguang still looked like a big grin: "It's okay, just have a casual meal, let's get to know each other." ”

While speaking, the door of the Mercedes-Benz opened, and a black man in a suit got out of the car and shook hands with Liu Ziguang warmly, Liu Ziguang introduced: "This is the Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Western Sadamoa and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to China, Your Excellency Jose. ”

Everyone was in awe, but Mr. Ambassador was approachable, shook hands with Zhou Wen and Xu Ning, and his authentic Chinese made people feel even more cordial.

Zhou Wen has seen some of the world, it is normal to talk and laugh, Xu Ning is stunned, he grew up in Nantai County since he was a child, and his father was only the deputy secretary of the county party committee at the time, and he was the best in the county, but when he arrived, he knew that his family background was nothing.

Originally, I just wanted to socialize casually and mix up the living expenses, but suddenly I was dragged into diplomatic activities, which made Xu Ning excited and worried, and secretly wanted to show off to Sheyou's friends after going back, and today I shook hands with the ambassador.

Everyone got on the bus and drove to the Pangu Building in the North Fourth Ring Road, today it was Hu Qingsong who was doing the east, and invited some heavyweight friends to discuss the reconstruction of West Sadama, so they chose a relatively high-grade platinum-level seven-star hotel, and it was a high-level banquet hall on the 39th floor.

After arriving at the hotel, sit for a while, the guests will continue to arrive, Hu Qingsong introduced these distinguished guests, including the director of the African Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the senior management of the State Development Bank, the vice president of the Foreign Construction Corporation, the president of the Railway Construction, the secretary of the board of directors of Huawei Communications, and the vice president of the steel business in charge of iron ore imports.

As for Xu Ning, he was speechless from being shocked, and he didn't know where to put his nervous hands and feet.

Fortunately, these dignitaries and dignitaries did not care, the protagonists of the banquet were Ambassador Jose and entrepreneurs, Hu Qingsong was just playing the role of a medium, the large-scale reconstruction of West Sadamoa, ports, railways, airports, mines, a full set of communication systems, such an attractive piece of cake, domestic enterprises all moved by the wind, and those present today are all cattle people who won the first place in the early competition.

During the banquet, everyone talked and laughed, talking about diplomacy and high-end business topics, Zhou Wen and Xu Ning couldn't interject at all, but Liu Ziguang, as a representative of Chinese-funded enterprises in Western Sadama, told a few small jokes about fighting wits and courage with the Kuba rebels, which attracted bursts of admiration.

An hour and a half later, the banquet ended, today is just a preliminary communication, and they can contact themselves about the bidding and bidding later, when the guests left 6, Xu Ning whispered to Zhou Wen: "Uncle Zhou, why haven't I eaten this meal." ”

Zhou Wen smiled, not surprised that Xu Ning suddenly changed his name, he said: "Today's meal, the standard per guest is at least 3,000 yuan, not counting the wine, this is the atmosphere of eating, I really want to be full, Lanzhou ramen at the door, five yuan is full." ”

Xu Ning stuck out his tongue: "It's so powerful, it's even better than my father's eating and drinking at public expense." ”

Zhou Wen took out a card from his arms and said: "This is the living expenses that your father gave you, you take it first, if it is not enough, ask Uncle Zhou for it, Uncle Zhou will help you find a way to solve the problem of work." ”

Xu Ning took the card and nodded thoughtfully.

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Finally, the song ended, all the guests left satisfied, Zhou Wen also beat Xiao Wang to send Xu Ning away, Liu Ziguang came over and said, "Zhou Wen, find another place to have a drink." ”

Zhou Wen smiled: "You haven't eaten enough." ”

The two went downstairs and walked along the neon-lit road for a while, found a Northwest style ramen restaurant, asked for two bowls of noodles, a plate of dry-cut beef, two bottles of beer, poured red chili oil on the noodles, and feasted on them.

Zhou Wen put down the dishes and chopsticks and sighed: "Old classmate, you are doing a lot of business now, you know so many powerful friends, and you have the right opportunity to take care of me, don't look at me now, I am the youngest county magistrate in the province, but the pressure is great, my white head has all grown in the past year." ”

Liu Ziguang said: "Since you are so tired, don't be an official, just do business with me, although the shopping mall is intense, it is far from being as life-and-death as officialdom." ”

Zhou Wen shook his head: "This is a road that can't be turned back, if I were still the little clerk back then, maybe I could leave everything behind and go with you, but now that I am the county magistrate, the county's 100,000 people are counting on me, this may be a bit big, but it is indeed the truth, if I go, the poverty hat of Nantai County will not be able to take off for another 20 years." ”

After saying this, Zhou Wen thought of Deputy County Magistrate Zhu's face, if it weren't for his dark horse, the county magistrate's position should be surnamed Zhu.

After a while, Liu Ziguang said leisurely: "Zhou Wen, you are a good official, a rare good official." ”