Chapter 35: New Year's Greetings (I)

All kinds of meetings were held, and on the afternoon of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Lin Jinhong dragged his nearly collapsed body home, and when he returned, his family was shocked, good guy, dark and thin, like an African refugee. After returning home, the first thing he had to do was to sleep, this sleep was dead, until the Chinese New Year's Eve meal was ready, he was called by his grandmother to eat, and after eating, he received a call from the girl, and the two talked to each other for nearly half an hour before reluctantly putting down the phone. As soon as the phone was put down here, Shen Yuan called again over there, and he felt a little numb when he kept coming anyway.

The first day of junior high school was the most relaxing day for Lin Jinhong, sitting in the yard, grandpa, dad and him basked in the sun for a long day, and also chatted about work for a long time, and his father and grandfather were quite satisfied with his performance. His father patted him on the shoulder, "On the fifth day of the new year, I will take you to meet a few of my old friends, take you to recognize the door, and you can also walk around by yourself if you have something in the future!" ”

"Dad, Secretary Wu of the Municipal Party Committee is your friend, is the relationship very iron?"

"Do you know Secretary Wu?"

"We met when I went to the city, and he told me about your relationship!"

"Oh!" His father smiled, with a nostalgic look on his face, "The relationship is okay, I used to wear the same pants at school and when I went to the countryside, but then I went to the National People's Congress, he entered the system, and the two didn't get together much!" By the way, how did you meet him when you went to the city, and he didn't mention it to me the last time we talked on the phone! ”

Lin Jinhong told him what happened in the city, and after hearing it, grandpa and dad suddenly realized, and grandpa smiled rarely: "You kid is hiding it tightly, you never told me about you winning the medal for righteousness and bravery, and Xiao Shen didn't tell me about it!" ”

"It's not a big deal, I have to worry about grandpa when I say it, so I haven't mentioned it." Lin Jinhong hurriedly explained.

Grandpa waved his hand and said loudly: "You don't have to be in a hurry to explain, you have also grown up, just count yourself." ”

The next day, the family gradually increased, and the third aunt and the seventh mother-in-law all came to pay New Year's greetings, which was the most lively year since the grandfather's retirement. Throughout the day, the house was full, and even several village party secretaries and village chiefs from Shankou Village, Daliao Village and Shaoyuan Village came to join in the fun. The busiest people on this day were my grandmother and mother, who hadn't sat much all day.

Lin Jinhong began to pay New Year's greetings on the third and fourth days of junior high school, and several leaders from relatives and towns had to go to the door.

At dawn the next day, Lin Jinhong was awakened by his father's knock on the door, "Dad, do you need to be in such a hurry?" ”

"Don't talk nonsense, how many can I see today, I'm going back to Yanjing tomorrow, why don't you go wash your face and brush your teeth!"

"Why did you go back so early, isn't there still a dozen days before school starts?" Lin Jinhong said strangely, my father, a professor, seems to be very busy, and he never spends more than ten days at home during the Chinese New Year every year, and he rarely goes home during the summer vacation. If it weren't for the fact that the relationship between his father and his mother has always been very good, he would have wondered if his father was having an extramarital affair in Yanjing.

"The research project is not completed yet, you think I don't want to stay at home!" Dad sighed when he said this, and said leisurely, "Hey, sometimes I really want to just move you to Yanjing, so that you don't have to run around like this." ”

Lin Jinhong didn't have the heart to listen to his father's feelings, so he went to brush his teeth and wash his face. After breakfast, the father and son went to the village entrance to wait for the car, because it was still the fifth day of the new year, the town to the county car is only three classes, morning, noon and afternoon each have one class, the morning at seven o'clock departure, is considered an early bus. I looked at my watch, and it was ten minutes before seven o'clock. "Dad, who are you seeing today?"

"Wu Zhengqiang, Chen Liwen, and Ruan Chengzhang. Wu Zhengqiang, you also know, Chen Liwen is now the deputy director of the Organization Department of the county party committee, he is my university alumnus, one year shorter than me, and the relationship is okay. Another person, Ruan Chengzhang, is a businessman, the boss of Tianxiang Group Co., Ltd. in the city, which I met when I was doing research a few years ago, and I once pointed out a few words, this person is good, and there is no copper smell like ordinary businessmen. ”

"Dad, you're too good, your classmate is either the secretary of the municipal party committee or the head of the county organization, and he also has the president of the group company!"

"Don't pat yourself on the back, the car is coming, get in the car first!" The two got into the car, because it was the fifth day of the new year, there were not many people going out, the car was empty, and the two found a place to sit down at random.

Lin Jinhong was just about to take the money, but he didn't expect to hand out a hundred-yuan bill behind him and say to the conductor, "Comrade, I gave the two of them the car money!" ”

Lin Jinhong was slightly stunned, turned around, and the person who wanted to pay for his car was a middle-aged man about thirty years old, who looked quite gentle, and looked very honest, the key was that there was a bookish atmosphere, Lin Jinhong thought about it and really couldn't remember that he knew this person. Then he asked suspiciously, "May I ask who you are?" ”

"Deputy Mayor Lin, I am Chen Ran's lover Li Guoping, I have seen Deputy Mayor Lin a few times, so I know each other!"

"Oh, it turned out to be Brother Li, why are you embarrassed to let Brother Li pay for the car, put it away!" Lin Jinhong hurriedly stopped his hand, and he waited to withdraw the money, the two of them went back and forth for a few rounds, Lin Jinhong was always thin-skinned, and when he saw the slightly impatient eyes of the conductor, he finally asked Li Guoping to pay for the car.

Lin Jinhong sat down in his position and turned his head, "Let Brother Li break the bill, where is Brother Li going?" ”

"There is a relative in the county seat, and Chen Ran can't leave, so I have to take a trip!" Li Guoping stuffed the money he found back into his pocket, and said a little shyly, "Deputy Mayor Lin, do you have something to do with going to the county seat?" ”

"It's a little trifle! Hehe, Brother Li can call me Lin Jinhong directly, don't be so polite! Lin Jinhong responded casually and introduced his father again. Lin Jinhong saw that Li Guoping seemed to have something to say, "Is there something wrong with Brother Li?" ”

Li Guoping smiled: "No...... It's okay, Deputy Mayor Lin has time to come home and sit! ”

After the two chatted for a few words, the scene cooled down, and Lin Jinhong turned his head, smiled at the father beside him, closed his eyes and pretended to sleep.

More than an hour later, the car finally arrived at the county seat, the two changed buses, first went to the city, heard my father said that Secretary Wu was waiting for his father and son at home in the morning, so he first went to the city to visit Wu Zhengqiang and Ruan Chengzhang, and then returned to the county seat in the afternoon to visit Chen Liwen.

On the bus, my father asked about Chen Ran, and Lin Jinhong introduced Chen Ran a little.

Dad squinted and said, "Be careful about the relationship between men and women!" The problem of life style is not big, it is not small, don't capsize in the gutter! ”