On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Li Songlin received a call from Li Siqi early in the morning, asking him to hurry to Zhongzhou City, saying that he had something very important to tell him.

Li Songlin was a little angry in his heart - MD! Is there something important that can't be said on the phone? Do you have to let Lao Tzu go to Zhongzhou?

If you want to put it aside, Li Songlin will not complain, but today is the Lantern Festival, according to the tradition of Jundu officialdom, at noon, many people will come to his house as guests.

The people who came were all officials at all levels in the officialdom of Jundu, and at noon of the Lantern Festival every year, many officials would come to his house to sit. In jargon, this is called beating the year, which means that at noon on this day, the officials visit someone's home, and this year, whose camp will be on whose side.

Every year during the Chinese New Year, officials will walk around and walk around, of course, it is the lower-level officials who go to the homes of the higher-level officials, this kind of walking, for some people is not willing, but they can't help but move, in order to make their hearts balanced, they call this kind of walking, called going up.

There are two times a year to go up, once on the evening of the Chinese New Year's Eve, bring some gifts to the leader's house, snort a handful of melon seeds, pull two idle sentences, and then send a big red envelope to other people's children to express their hearts, which is called sending the end of the year.

Another time, it is the beginning of the year, since it is the first year, it should be the most appropriate on the first day of the new year. But according to traditional habits, this day is a day of family reunion, and there are a lot of people with foreign surnames sitting at the family banquet, which is really a bit ruinous to the atmosphere.

At the same time, those who want to go up also need to reunite with their families, leaving their wives and children to reunite with the leader's family, it is too filial piety!

So someone suggested that the New Year be changed to the fifteenth day of the first month.

Playing the beginning of the year and sending the end of the year, to put it bluntly, it is to find a gift to the leader from the beginning, pull the relationship, the meaning is not the same, the weight is not the same, send the end of the year, is in a hurry to come and hurry, from this home, you can also go to that home, one night, even go to a lot of homes, people are coming, gifts are given, but can not express the political position of the giver.

It's different at the beginning of the year, on this day, the guests are going to stay in the host's house to eat and drink, and at noon, whose living room your ass sits in represents who you are.

To put aside the first two years, Li Songlin didn't care much about this, and on the day of the Lantern Festival, the family was like a market, at that time, the only thing Li Songlin cared about was how thick the red envelopes in people's hands were.

Since becoming the mayor, Li Songlin found that he was becoming more and more passive in interpersonal relationships, and when he sent the end of the year, the number of people who came was obviously much less than in previous years, and since the beginning of the new year, Li Songlin held back a lot of energy in his heart, he wanted to see how many people would come to the house at the beginning of the year.

But on this day, Li Siqi had to let him go to Zhongzhou City.

Although he was very unhappy in his heart, Li Songlin couldn't help but go, and he estimated that the most important thing Li Siqi said should be related to personnel reform.

The personnel reform of the Xicheng Industrial Park presided over by Liu Yan has now been settled, and none of the people selected this time are related to Li Songlin.

Now there is already a rumor coming out, saying that it is in the Jundu City Government, and he Li Songlin is about to stand aside, even if he is still wearing the mayor's crown, that hat will be like a green hat, although it is worn on his head, but the matter is done by others.

That's too shabby! Li Songlin's choked face was all green.

If he doesn't take back the right to appoint and dismiss personnel from Liu Yan's hands, then the black veil on his head will really become a green hat in the eyes of others.

Although it has passed ninety-nine, the weather is cold and evil, Li Songlin just came down from the upstairs, his ears have been frozen, he put his two hands on his ears and wanted to cover it, his hands immediately froze again, and his ten fingers were as cold as bars of wire.

He had no choice but to take his hand off again, and while snorting hot air on his hand, he walked quickly to the garage.

As soon as I left the city, it began to snow, and the snow sprinkled on the ground like sand, and the road rattled and rattled. It didn't take long for a layer of ice to form on the ground.

The ice is very thin, but it is slippery, Li Songlin is driving a second knife, this slippery road, he can only drive the car in the lowest gear, like a meat worm slowly crawling forward, despite this, the tires still keep shutting.

Li Songlin held the steering wheel tightly, cautiously drove forward, after a turn, the body suddenly appeared sideways, Li Songlin had no experience, just stepped on the brakes hard, the body suddenly came to a 360-degree drift, and crashed into the isolation pier on the side of the road.

Li Songlin was about to pee.

Stopping the car, Li Songlin gasped for a while, wiped the sweat oozing from his forehead, took out his mobile phone, and called Luo Jifeng tremblingly.

"Xiao Luo, hurry up to Zhongjun Road, I have a car accident."

Luo Jifeng was sleeping lazily, and when he heard Li Songlin's voice that was worse than crying, he suddenly got out of the quilt and asked instinctively: "Are you okay?" ”

"Come on, I'm dying."

Luo Jifeng was even more nervous. If something really happens to Li Songlin, then his responsibility will be great.

An official of Li Songlin's level is not qualified to have a full-time driver, and strictly speaking, he cannot even enjoy the treatment of a special car. Therefore, when he wants to go anywhere, Luo Jifeng usually drives it, in fact, Luo Jifeng's job is to pick up the secretary driver.

Luo Jifeng didn't drive Li Songlin today, on the one hand, because Li Songlin felt that today's events were more special, and it was a little inconvenient for Luo Jifeng to follow him, and on the other hand, it was Luo Jifeng's own reasons.

Although the statutory Spring Festival holiday is only seven days, in Jundu, after the Lantern Festival, it is generally not normal to work.

In the eyes of ordinary people, the taste of the New Year is getting weaker and lighter, but in the officialdom, people move around each other more and more frequently. From Chinese New Year's Eve to the fifteenth, just giving gifts fills the schedule, and it is busier than when I usually go to work. Even when I go to work, it's just a symbolic order, and then I have to run to every house to give gifts.

Luo Jifeng doesn't have these troubles, he has been following Li Songlin as a secretary all these years, and people still have to scold him, during the Spring Festival, even officials with a higher level than him have to sit at his house.

This year's Spring Festival has been a little stuffy, from Chinese New Year's Eve to fifteen, there is not even a single person who comes to visit the house, which makes Luo Jifeng's heart strong, I don't know how many times he scolded Li Songlin.

He made up his mind and resolutely stopped following Li Songlin.

In the taxi, Luo Jifeng was still ruthless in his heart - it would be good to kill Li Songlin, a dog day!

When he arrived at the scene, he found that Li Songlin had nothing to do, just trembling. The bumper of the Audi A4 was smashed.

Seeing this scene, Luo Jifeng was angry, he glared at Li Songlin, and said angrily: "Such a slippery road, you don't know how to install snow chains?" ”

How could Li Songlin know this, for driving, he is completely a master who doesn't care about picking chickens in the drying field, and he said that he has installed snow chains, and he doesn't even know what snow chains are.

It was already ten o'clock in the morning when I drove the car to the 4S shop and installed the snow chains, and the car couldn't drive too fast, and when I arrived downstairs at Li Siqi's house, it was already twelve o'clock at noon.

Li Songlin opened the car door and was about to go to Li Siqi's house, but Li Siqi's phone called.

"Mayor Li, where have you been?"

"Just arrived downstairs at your house."

"That's it, please go to the supermarket, there are more guests here today, and the rice balls are not enough, please bring me some rice balls."

What does Li Siqi mean? Is he going to spend the New Year at home today?

Li Songlin's heart was a little panicked, even if Li Siqi wanted to spend the New Year at home, he shouldn't let him give gifts! In Zhongzhou City, Li Siqi is the last member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee, to put it mildly, it is a role of a goose feather fan, why are you!

But this gift, Li Songlin can't help but give it, Li Siqi asked him to carry something, not let him send something, can he not give it?

If you want to carry something, you can't just buy a few packets of glutinous rice balls and go back, which would also make him too stingy.

Li Songlin gritted his teeth and bought two cases of Moutai for Li Siqi. Now is the time to use Li Siqi, he has to get some blood.

There are more than a dozen people sitting in the living room of Li Siqi's house, these people, Li Songlin basically doesn't know, and they shouldn't be important roles in officialdom.

Li Songlin was holding two boxes of Moutai wine and a bag of rice balls, so he didn't say hello to these people, and he didn't care about saying hello.

Li Siqi pulled Li Songlin into the room, closed the door of the room, and began to talk about that very important matter.

"The provincial party committee has agreed, and after the New Year, you can run your personnel reform plan."

This is indeed good news, although Li Songlin was tired and even coughing and wheezing, after listening to Li Siqi's words, he still nodded at Li Siqi with a grateful face.

"Thank you so much Secretary-General Li!"

"Don't be in a hurry to thank me first, although the provincial party committee agreed to your plan, it also put forward two requirements."

Li Songlin asked anxiously: "What are the two requirements?" ”

Li Siqi said: "First of all, personnel reform must be carried out in the form of experiments, and it is not appropriate to make too big moves. ”

This is no problem, Li Songlin was not prepared to make too much movement, the scope was too large, and he did not have so many trustworthy people to arrange, in addition, once he did not grasp it well, it was very likely that there would be chaos.

Li Siqi said: "In addition, the provincial party committee requires that Liu Yan must be involved in this personnel reform. ”