After asking Liu Xicai to help the company apply for a certificate, Xia Jiao immediately sent him a red envelope of 4,000 yuan. Liu Xicai just pushed it a little and smiled.

In the next month or so, Xia Jiao really appreciated the level of the officials of the Beishan County Cultural Bureau.

Since the day Liu Xicai agreed to help her, almost every week he has to invite a few leaders of the Cultural Bureau out to eat, drink and sing, sometimes it is the number one Gu Xin and several deputy directors, sometimes it is the person in charge and the clerk of the marketing unit and the cultural inspection team, sometimes it is the relevant personnel of other units, and sometimes it is Liu Xicai who invites her to pay for it privately......

Three weeks later, Xia Jiao has sent red envelopes of more than 20,000 yuan to the leaders of the Cultural Affairs Bureau, and spent more than 30,000 yuan on dinner and singing, with a total expenditure of nearly 60,000 yuan, but there is still no progress in the matter of applying for certificates.

Xia Jiao asked Liu Xicai several times, and he explained like this every time: The Blue Moon Performing Arts Center is relatively large in scale and has a lot of investment, which is easy to attract the attention of the above. The leaders of the county bureau are reporting to their superiors for instructions on the issue of the Blue Moon Performing Arts Center being set up in a residential area, and request the county party committee and county government and the Min'an Municipal Cultural Bureau to make special arrangements to allow Blue Moon to carry out business activities at the current address.

Liu Xicai also emphasized: In order to let the higher-level departments open up to the problem of illegal site selection of Blue Moon, Director Gu repeatedly invited Secretary Ye of the county party committee, County Mayor Zhong and Director Xu of the Min'an Municipal Cultural Bureau to eat and drink tea, and spent more than 10,000 yuan privately, and finally got the reluctant consent of Secretary Ye, County Mayor Zhong and Director Xu. However, because the performing arts center is located opposite a residential area, the Cultural Affairs Bureau must coordinate with the Public Security Bureau, the Fire Brigade, the Industrial and Commercial Bureau and other functional departments to win their understanding and support......

At this point, Xia Jiao finally fully understood: the silverfish of the County Cultural Bureau regarded the Blue Moon Performing Arts Center as a "big fat meat" from the beginning, and were ready to slaughter it fiercely.

She analyzed: Beishan County is a poor county, the consumption level of urban residents is not high, the entertainment venues in the county, there are only a dozen dance halls that are not up to the grade, and there are some Internet cafes, skating rinks, game rooms, billiards rooms that are behind the times, and the entertainment industry is very underdeveloped, so the county cultural bureau has become a clear water yamen, and those leaders rarely have the opportunity to go outside to fish for oil and water, and knock on bamboo and bamboo poles.

Now, an entertainment city with an investment of tens of millions suddenly appeared in the county, the boss is still from other places, and it seems to be very rich, so they are eyeing this "big fat meat", first let Liu Xicai come forward to contact, and then he will thread the needle and introduce officials and clerks of all sizes to Blue Moon to "eat big households". In order to slaughter as much of this "fat meat" as possible, they found all kinds of reasons to delay the application for the certificate, the purpose was to want Xia Jiao to treat and give gifts again......

As for Liu Xicai's nonsense that Gu Xin, the leader of the Cultural Bureau, invited Secretary Ye, County Magistrate Zhong and other leaders to eat and drink tea many times for the sake of the blue moon, Xia Jiao absolutely did not believe it: such a small issue was originally something that could be decided, and there was no need for the leaders of the county party committee and county government to come forward to take responsibility. Moreover, she never believed that Ye Ming would accept Gu Xin's many banquets because of such a small issue, even if he really entertained Ye Ming, it must have been for other things......

When she understood the secret, Xia Jiao was very angry and wanted to have a big quarrel with Liu Xicai, but after thinking about it carefully, the Cultural Affairs Bureau is the most important competent unit in the future operation of the entertainment city, and it often has to be inspected by the cultural inspection team. If you offend these people now, they will often come to the entertainment city in the future to carry out "inspections", grab pigtails, and fine or order them to suspend business for rectification at every turn, which will be a very troublesome problem.

Therefore, she could only swallow her anger and continue to entertain and give gifts according to their requirements, and according to Liu Xicai's instructions, she "compensated" him with more than 10,000 yuan for Gu Xin to invite Secretary Ye and other leaders to eat and drink tea......

On the morning of Ye Ming's meeting with her, Liu Xicai called her again and said that at noon today, he had made an appointment with Director Gu and several deputy directors and Captain Gao Biao of the Cultural Inspection Brigade to have dinner together, and the location was still at the "Doublelin Tea Restaurant" on Xinhua Road.

From Liu Xicai's mouth, Xia Jiao vaguely knew that this "Doublewood Tea Restaurant" was opened by Gu Xin's sister-in-law, but in fact, the backstage boss was Gu Xin. After eating a few meals, Xia Jiao found that as long as she invited a guest, the waiter would not take the menu, but Gu Xin or others would arrange the "special dishes" in the store, and these so-called "special dishes" were just ordinary dishes such as "steamed sand turtle", "stewed pigeon with gastrodia", "braised pig's trotters", "stewed pork belly with lilies", but the price was very expensive. Sometimes five or six people eat a meal and drink one or two bottles of mid-range liquor, but when they check out, they cost three or four thousand yuan.

Once, after Xia Jiao spent more than 3,000 yuan to invite Gu Xin and them once, the next day she asked Xia Feifei to bring a few local employees to this tea restaurant, and ordered eight dishes exactly the same as when she was invited to the hospital, two bottles of liquor of the same brand, and went to check out after eating, and found that it was only 1,800 yuan. In other words, when she invited Gu Xin and them to dinner, the store deliberately raised the price of food and drink, which was almost twice as expensive......

However, although she knew that there was a lot of trickery in it, in order to get the documents down as soon as possible, Xia Jiao still agreed to treat her. Moreover, after returning to Blue Moon halfway to see Ye Ming, she didn't reveal half of her words to him about being slaughtered by the people of the Cultural Affairs Bureau, because she didn't want to cause trouble for Ye Ming, let alone let those people from the Cultural Affairs Bureau know her relationship with Ye Ming......

When she returned to the box after separating from Ye Ming, Gu Xin and the others had already drunk a bottle of Wuliangye, and the dishes on the table were already in a mess. Seeing her come in, Liu Xicai, who was half drunk, immediately stood up, grabbed her arm, pulled her to Gu Xin and sat down, and shouted: "Miss Jiaojiao, you just asked for leave to go back to deal with things, our Director Gu has no interest in drinking, and is always urging me to call and ask you to come back quickly, saying that if you don't come, Wuliangye will taste like boiled water, without any taste." Now that you're here, add a few more dishes, ask the waiter to bring two bottles of Wuliangye, and you can accompany our Director Gu to have a drink. ”

Saying that, he didn't care whether Xia Jiao agreed or not, called the waiter in, added four more dishes, brought two bottles of Wuliangye, and asked the waiter to open it, first poured a pot for Xia Jiao with a wine dispenser, and forced her to drink three glasses first, saying that it was "punishment for being late".

Xia Jiao glanced sideways and found that Gu Xin had been scanning her face and chest with lustful eyes, and she couldn't help but feel a wave of disgust in her heart: every time this old thing eats, she has to tease herself with some seemingly romantic words, and often praises herself for having the appearance of a sinking fish and a goose, and the appearance of a shy flower in the closed moon, and also said that he has read countless people, but a girl like Miss Jiaojiao who has both natural beauty and business talent is still rare.

From his words and deeds and his lustful demeanor, Xia Jiao had already noticed it: this old thing wants to take advantage of himself, but he has never found a good opportunity!