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"Huh?" Hearing Mingyue say this, everyone was surprised, this is too much, even the principal was surprised.

"Secretary Ming, you have too much, right?" Zhao Guodong walked up to Mingyue and said.

"You're Zhao Ying's father, right?" Mingyue stretched out her hand and shook Zhao Guodong's hand. "Hello."

"Hello, hello." Zhao Guodong was honestly afraid, this is the secretary of the county party committee, shaking hands with a grass farmer, this is a rare honor. "Secretary Ming, I'm ......" Zhao Guodong wiped his hand on his clothes fiercely before holding his hand tightly.

"Don't be nervous, I won't eat you." Mingyue made a joke, which made the entire conference room relax.

"Yes, it's Secretary Mingyue." Although Zhao Guodong said that he was not nervous, he still felt beads of sweat in his palms.

"I heard that you opened a small shop in front of the school, and it just so happens that I haven't eaten yet, so I'm going to go to your small shop today to try it, and I heard that the craftsmanship is good." Mingyue said this, and the faces of several people changed.

The principal said anxiously beside him: "Secretary Ming, we have all booked a banquet in the hotel outside, just waiting for you to arrive, you are ......." ”

"Hmph." Mingyue snorted coldly, "Headmaster, your task is to educate students well, not to pat yourself on the leader, I hope you still care about the students in your school." Mingyue's words made the principal's face red.

"Okay, I think that's what you mean by this commendation conference, just leave it here, you still do your work in a down-to-earth manner." Mingyue's words made the principal almost suffocate to death. It can also be seen from here that Mingyue, the secretary of the county party committee, is a more pragmatic person. "Brother Zhao, let's go now."

"Don't dare, I'm just an ordinary citizen who doesn't dare to call you." Zhao Guodong has also changed now, after all, he is also a person who has seen big scenes and big people, and he walked out of the excitement just now and tended to calm down, Mingyue also glanced at Zhao Guodong in surprise, but he didn't care.

"Then let's go, go to your little shop and sit down, and try your craft."

Zhao Guodong and his entourage took Mingyue and went to their store with two breaths, and then the leaders of the school, as well as several classmates and parents looked at each other.

"My wife is a frequent visitor to your place, and often says in front of me that your side dishes here, and what kind of cake tastes very good, in addition to the commendation of Zhao Ying and Zhang Xue this time, I just want to taste your Brother Zhao's craftsmanship." Mingyue sat in Zhao Guodong's small shop and said.

"That's okay, Secretary Ming, wait a minute, I'll do it right away, it just so happens that we haven't eaten yet, so let's sit down and eat together." Zhao Guodong didn't deliberately slap the horse, let alone he wouldn't. Zhao Guodong took Lu Fangjun and Zhang Wu into the kitchen, and then Mingyue and his wife Kou Zhilan and Bai Xiaoju, Xiaoxue's mother and Xiaoyingzi Xiaoxue, they sat together and chatted.

Zhao Guodong and the three of them entered the kitchen and began to be busy.

"Lao Zhao, are we going to make something delicious?" Lu Fangjun said.

"Don't be so troublesome, what we usually eat, we will eat today." Zhao Guodong said.

"People are also the secretary of the county party committee, we can't do this, doesn't this make people look down on us." Lu Fangjun said.

"Teacher Lu, you don't understand, you are the secretary of the county party committee, and you haven't eaten anything delicious, if you really do this, it will make Secretary Ming think that we are doing it on purpose, which will be counterproductive. We will give him what we eat, so that we can see our sincerity. As soon as Zhang Wu said this, Lu Fangjun understood.

"Lao Zhang, how do you know so much?" Lu Fangjun asked.

"I'm a businessman, one of the two kinds of people I deal with the most is also a businessman, and the other is an official, judging from my contact just now, this secretary Ming is a very pragmatic person, he doesn't like that kind of blind whiskers, he is a down-to-earth person." Zhang Wu said.

"You've got what it takes." Lu Fangjun admired the five-body throw.

In the store, Mingyue and a few people were doing homework.

"It seems that your tutors are very strict, and they are all men cooking." Mingyue said with a smile.

"Secretary Ming, this small shop is opened by the three of us, Brother Zhao is the chef in our small shop, and the one in our family can also cook a little, not to mention that Mr. Lu, he used to be a soldier and participated in the battle, so it is normal for him to be able to cook. As for us, women comrades sometimes need to be emancipated. Xiaoxue's mother explained to Mingyue.

"That's good, why doesn't Brother Zhao have a wife?" Mingyue's words made the whole atmosphere freeze, except for Mingyue and the others, everyone else was silent.

"Did I ask something I shouldn't have asked?" Mingyue saw everyone's silence, "Then I won't ask." ”

"Secretary Ming, don't mind, although we know the Tao, but without the consent of the master, we can't say it, this is also people's privacy." Xiaoxue's mother said embarrassedly.

"It's okay, it's okay, I'm just curious, and I asked casually, wanting to know what kind of parents can teach such an excellent child." Mingyue said.

"Actually, I was my father's adopted child, and my father never got married." Xiao Yingzi, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly spoke.

"What? Are you Brother Zhao's adopted child? Mingyue didn't believe it, but when she saw the expressions of the others, she believed that this matter was not fake.

"Yes." Xiao Yingzi told all the things she had grown up with Zhao Guodong since she was a child, including how Zhao Guodong raised her through customs clearance, and also supported an old man at the same time, and this old man was not Zhao Guodong's biological mother, and told the hardships and pains in detail. Of course, Xiao Yingzi didn't talk about some things.

Originally, Xiaoxue's mother, Bai Xiaoju, and Xiaoxue all knew about these things, but now that they heard Xiaoyingzi talk again, their tears couldn't stop flowing, and Kou Zhilan washed her face with tears, and Mingyue, who was sitting next to her, also had tears in her eyes.

"It turned out that Brother Zhao had also been a soldier and participated in battles, what is commendable is that he has not forgotten that he is a soldier for so many years, even if he has been discharged from the army, but in his body, I see the quality and soul of a soldier who should be, he is a soldier." Mingyue said emotionally.

"It's time to eat." Lu Fangjun shouted, and then a few people brought a steaming meal to the table, and a few people set the dishes and chopsticks and found that something was wrong with the atmosphere.

"What's going on? Let's eat, everybody. Zhao Guodong said with a smile, "Secretary Ming came to my place for the first time, there is nothing to entertain, it is all home-cooked food, don't dislike it." ”

"Don't dislike it, don't dislike it, it's good." Mingyue quickly cleaned up her mood, "Come on, let's eat." ”

"That's right, don't be constrained by our identity, we are also ordinary couples, don't be constrained." Kou Zhilan said.

"Yes, yes, let's take it easy, the secretary is also a human being." Lu Fangjun said that this made everyone laugh.

The meal ended in a pleasant atmosphere.

"Lao Zhao, let's chat, let these lesbians clean up." After eating, Zhao Guodong was about to clean up the dishes and chopsticks, but was stopped by Mingyue, Kou Zhilan was also very diligent in pulling Xiaoxue's mother to clean up, although everyone repeatedly blocked it, but still couldn't resist Kou Zhilan, so she had to agree.

"Brother Zhao, I overheard some of your things just now, and I also learned about some of your experiences, I really admire you, admire your persistence for so many years, you are sticking to your heart, let me sincerely admire." Mingyue looked at Zhao Guodong and said, "Do you have any plans next?" ”

"Secretary Ming, you are polite, what can I admire, I just did what I should do, and I still have important things to do next, this is my life's commitment, I owe them an explanation." Zhao Guodong said.

"Is there anything I can help you with?" Mingyue said.

"There's nothing to help, it's my own business, but my daughter also asked Secretary Ming to take care of it, because I can't tell how long it will take me to leave, I hope Secretary Ming can help me hide from her for a while, preferably when she graduates." Zhao Guodong said.

"Okay, I promise you." When Mingyue listened to Xiao Yingzi just now, she knew that Zhao Guodong also gave his comrades-in-arms the honor they deserved to their families, and also wanted to bring Aunt Mei's ashes back to the burial place of the five brothers in the border city.

The guests had already dispersed, but when Mingyue was leaving, she left the certificate and bonus for Xiaoyingzi and Xiaoxue, and said that he would come here often in the future.

Xiao Yingzi went to play with Xiao Xue, and Zhao Guodong was left alone in the whole house, he didn't sleep, he couldn't sleep.

There was no light in the room, just the moonlight outside the window, Zhao Guodong put the black box that had not been taken out for a long time, and put it in front of him, Zhao Guodong took a bottle of wine, and looked at the black box while drinking.

"It seems that we haven't seen each other for many years, this time my brother's affairs are over, the children have grown up, I don't have much to worry about now, I have arranged everything, in a month, when Xiaoyingzi goes to school, I can go to you with peace of mind." Zhao Guodong took a sip of wine. "I miss you."

Zhao Guodong looked up at the weather and beat his legs, since he woke up, he found that his legs were getting worse day by day, and his chest began to feel stuffy. "The weather is going to change again."

Early the next morning, Zhao Guodong returned to Zhaojia Village with Xiaoyingzi.