Seeing that Li Dalun stood up very hard to greet him, Secretary Tao hurriedly walked a few steps forward and held Li Dalun's hand and said, "Old governor, please sit down, your old feet are not good, what are you polite to me!" ”

Li Dalun insisted on standing and holding Tao Yong's hand and said: "Secretary Tao is busy with official business, and my birthday of a person who is about to die has alarmed you, which really makes me very embarrassed!" ”

Secretary Tao smiled and said: "Old governor, don't say that, I also came to Tongjiang to inspect the work and heard Secretary Xiang know that you are the old leader of Songjiang Province, and you have made great contributions to the liberation and construction of Songjiang, since you have caught up, how can I not come to visit, this is as it should be!" ”

Secretary Tao can't share the cake for the time being, and he can't let the provincial party committee secretary eat the cake in public, everyone watched Secretary Tao wait for his next move, and the guests below didn't know what was going on, and they were all looking ahead. Li Zhengyang listened to what his grandfather Li Dalun said about Secretary Tao, and he didn't know how old this secretary was, but when he saw Hao Mingyuan, the executive vice governor of the Central Plains, very respectfully accompanying him, he drew his soul in his heart, thinking that this person would not be the secretary of the provincial party committee, and Li Xinrui didn't have any big feelings about the official, since people came to celebrate grandpa's birthday, it was a distinguished guest.

Seeing this, Bai Xiaoyi quietly pulled down Tao Fei and asked: "Sister Fei, do you want to announce the news of Secretary Tao's arrival, visiting the old cadres is also a more important news!" ”

Tao Fei said: "Xiaoyi, wait a minute, I have to ask my father." ”

Tao Fei stepped forward and whispered something in Tao Yong's ear, Tao Yong thought for a while and said, "Okay, then I'll respect the old governor with a glass of wine!" ”

Zuo Jiang saw that Secretary Tao wanted to toast his grandfather's wine, so he called the waiter and commanded in a low voice, and the waiter immediately turned around and walked out, and walked back with a plate on it, on which was a bottle of red wine and two wine cups, and stood aside respectfully.

Tao Fei nodded to Bai Xiaoyi, Bai Xiaoyi walked to the stage and cleared his throat and said: "Distinguished guests, relatives and friends, I now report to you a good news, today, Secretary Tao of the Songjiang Provincial Party Committee also came to Mr. Li's 70th birthday in person, on behalf of the Provincial Party Committee to express concern to the retired old cadres, below, let us welcome Secretary Tao with warm applause!" ”

As soon as I heard that the person was Secretary Tao of the Provincial Party Committee, whether it was the other four beauties on the stage, or the guests in the audience, they were all very shocked, and the applause was also extraordinarily warm, especially the children of the Li family, Li Zhiguo and others, who were even more shocked, looking at Secretary Tao and Tao Fei and Zuo Jiang standing beside him, the answer in his heart was about to come out. Several of Li Dalun's old comrades-in-arms were the calmest people, and they looked at Tao Yong in front of them with a relieved smile on their faces.

The waiter has already poured wine for Secretary Tao and Li Dalun, Secretary Tao picked up the wine glass and said to everyone: "Today is the 70th birthday of the old governor of Songjiang Province, Mr. Li Dalun, I am fortunate to coincide with it, the retired old cadres are a rich wealth of our party, it is their sacrifice to forget their lives in exchange for our happy life today, the party will not forget them, the country will not forget them, on the occasion of Li Lao's 70th birthday, on behalf of the Songjiang Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government, I would like to express my most sincere respect to Li Lao!" After that, he touched a glass with Li Dalun, then dried the wine in the cup first, and signaled to Li Dalun. Li Dalun also dried up the wine in the cup!

Originally, after the ceremony, Secretary Tao left, and began to distribute cakes to the guests, Tao Yong looked at Hao Mingyuan beside him and asked, "Governor Mingyuan, why did you come to participate in the birthday celebration of the old governor?" ”

Hao Mingyuan smiled and said: "Uncle Li is my father's old subordinate who fought devils in the deep mountains and old forests of Changbai Mountain, and when he got the news that Uncle Li was going to celebrate his 70th birthday, his father said that he wanted to come, and he said that if he didn't come this time, he wouldn't know if he would be able to see the old man again, so I had to accompany my father!" ”

"Hao Lao is here too?" When Tao Yong heard this, he hurriedly said, "Where is it?" I used to toast the old man with a glass of wine! ”

Hao Mingyuan stretched out his hand and gestured to his father's table and said, "Not only my father is here, but their old comrades-in-arms who are still alive have all come, and they are all sitting at that table!" ”

Hao Mingyuan accompanied Tao Yong to the table, and Xiang Nan, Zhu Jianguo, Tao Fei and Zuo Jiang, as well as Zuo Zheng and his wife, all walked over. Tao Yong was very familiar with Old Man Hao, stepped forward to hold his hand and said, "I didn't expect to meet Old Hao here, I only knew when Ming Yuan said it, please don't mind Old Hao!" ”

Old Man Hao smiled and said, "My old man didn't expect to meet you, how is Old Tao's body?" ”

Tao Yong said: "Thanks to your old blessing, my father's body is still quite tough, but he is not as old as a year!" ”

"Alas! The years are not forgiving! Old Man Hao sighed and said: "You are all in charge of the party now, can we not be old!" Oh, that's your daughter, right? As he spoke, he pointed at Tao Fei beside Tao Yong.

"Yes, this is my daughter Taufei!" Tao Yong said and turned to Tao Fei and said, "Xiaofei, come and see Grandpa Hao!" ”

Tao Fei stepped forward with a coquettish smile and said, "Hello Grandpa Hao! ”

"Huh!" Old Man Hao agreed with a smile, and then said, "You little girl, you didn't say a word when you saw my old man last night, you hid it quite deeply!" The words were reproachful, but there was a smile on his face.

Taufei just smiled but didn't speak. Tao Yong beckoned the waiter to pour wine, the little waiter was very clever, and poured wine into the cups of the old men sitting there, Secretary Tao was very happy, and secretly praised the little waiter for understanding.

Tao Yong picked up the wine glass and said, "Old Hao, I salute all seniors with a glass of wine!" Now that the seniors have arrived in Songjiang, I, the junior, must do my best to be a landlord, and please don't shirk the seniors! ”

Old man Hao smiled and said: "It's okay to toast a glass of wine, just do the friendship of the landlord!" Tonight, we old guys still have to talk with Old Man Li by candlelight, and we will return tomorrow, so don't waste time on us old men! ”

Secretary Tao is actually a courtesy, and he smiled when he heard the words and said, "Okay! Then I'll listen to Hao Lao! This glass is my toast to the old-timers! As he spoke, he picked up his glass and did it first!

Li Zhiguo, Li Yuguo and Li Shuxian sat at the table adjacent to Old Man Hao, and their attention was always on him after hearing that Tao Yong was the secretary of the provincial party committee of Songjiang Province. Hearing that Zuo Jiang's Sister Tao Fei turned out to be Secretary Tao's daughter, all the doubts in their hearts were relieved at once, and they looked at Zuo Jiang with anticipation in their eyes, hoping that Zuo Jiang could introduce them.

Zuo Jiang didn't even look at them, and Secretary Tao looked up after saluting the old men and saw George's table, because the Americans at that table were very eye-catching, and couldn't help but be stunned. Zuo Jiangji hurriedly stepped forward and whispered to Tao Yong about George's identity.

As soon as Secretary Tao heard that George was a scientist hired from the United States by Harry Potter Pharmaceutical Company, and that it was the golden brain-waking fluid they developed that made Songjiang famous throughout the country, he said to Zuo Jiang: "Since I am an expert who has contributed to the development of Songjiang, I have to go over and take a look!" After apologizing to the few old-timers present, he followed Zuo Jiang to George's table.

Zuo Jiang temporarily acted as Secretary Tao's interpreter, walked to George's table and said, "Uncle George, experts, our Secretary Tao from Songjiang Province has come to visit you!" Although several experts looked puzzled, they still stood up politely. Seeing this, Zuo Jiang knew that they did not know about China's official positions, so he quickly explained to them to the effect that the secretary of a provincial party committee in China is about the same as the governor of a state in the United States, but his power is much greater than that of the state.

In the United States, even scientists and celebrities like George are not very easy to meet the governor, and in the nearly a year since they came to China, they also know that Chinese officials have great power, and they are very excited when they hear that senior officials who are more powerful than the governor have come to meet them, but they are not as reserved as the Chinese people are about officials, and they talk nonsense.

Zuo Jiang only translated George's words of thanks to Secretary Tao, here the little waiter has poured wine for everyone with a very eye-catching eye, Secretary Tao picked up the wine glass and said to everyone: "You are all scientists, is a rare talent, thousands of miles to come to our Songjiang, for our Songjiang development and construction contributed your wisdom, for this, on behalf of Songjiang's 23 million people in the examination of the villagers thank you, let us raise a glass together, I wish Songjiang a better tomorrow!" ”

After Zuo Jiang translated Secretary Tao's words to George, they were very excited, and they raised their glasses to Secretary Tao, and Secretary Tao raised his glass to dry the red wine in the glass when he saw this, and signaled to everyone. A few American experts cheered loudly and dried up the wine in their glasses!

After Secretary Tao finished toasting three glasses of wine, accompanied by Secretary Xiang Nan, he left the birthday celebration scene, and Zuo Jiang, Tao Fei, Zhu Jianguo and others sent each other off. Seeing Zuo Jiang's back walking out of the door of the restaurant with Secretary Tao, Li Zhiguo and the others couldn't help but be deflated, their expectations were completely disappointed!