Peaches didn't make it to the provincial capital.

When Zheng Yuan called her, she was sitting on the sofa in a daze.

Just last night, Momoko received a strange phone call. The caller claimed to be Wu Shuiren, but he had just returned from out of town and said that he had something important to talk to Peaches. What does Momoko ask? The other party said that this matter could not be said on the phone, and could only be interviewed in person. Momoko thought it was another prank, and she had received similar calls before, most of them were running for officials, asking for officials but not getting them, and they called to intimidate them and get out of their evil spirits. So he ignored it and hung up the phone with a snap. I didn't expect the other party to follow and call again. This time, the other party was not so friendly, and his tone was very fierce, and he scolded Peaches: "What kind of thing are you, believe it or not, I can arrest your man with a phone call?" Momoko sensed something was wrong and asked the other party alertly, "Who are you and what do you want to say?" The other party laughed: "To know who I am, it's best to get to ...... tomorrow" The other party said a place, and without waiting for Peaches to speak, the other party said in a threatening tone: "I won't wait for a minute at that time, I'm not afraid that your man will lose his official position and go to prison, so don't come." ”

Last night, Peaches didn't close their eyes. Who is the other party? What exactly is to be said? Intuitively, Momoko concluded that this person was not running for official positions or asking for officials, nor did he have a grudge against Zheng Yuan. The enemy didn't speak in that tone, and he wouldn't bring up such a stupid thing as meeting. Thinking about it, there is only one possibility, there must be something in Zheng Yuan's hands, and he wants to blackmail.

What's the matter? Peaches tossed and turned, but couldn't find the answer. thought carefully about his life with Zheng Yuan, and found no loopholes. Zheng Yuan doesn't seem to be having an affair, and he hasn't heard that he has a woman outside. What else could it be? Is there anything that can make the other person say something like going to jail? The more Peaches thought about it, the more scared she became, the more anxious she became, and she felt that she couldn't wait for dawn.

When Zheng Yuan called her to pack her things and go to the provincial capital to pick up Ye Zihe, Peaches waited for the phone as if she was sitting on pins and needles, and the other party said that he would call her again in the morning. Leaving Zheng Yuan, Peaches became more and more uneasy. Maybe her life with Zheng Yuan was too happy and satisfying, and a mysterious phone call suddenly popped up, which reminded her a lot.

It wasn't until after noon that the other party called and asked her to leave immediately. Peaches packed up her things and walked out.

The other party suddenly changed his mind and asked her to go to the shepherd's house.

It's a casual bar with a rustic twist, or a teahouse. When Momoko entered, she didn't find anyone suspicious, and she looked around, and there were no other guests except for a pair of whispering lovers. At this time, the shepherd's house is the quietest and loneliest time of the day, and the heat will not be until after dusk. The owner is a wandering singer in his thirties, who is sleeping on a long bamboo chair. His young wife held the child in her arms and looked out the window at the river in a corner far from the peach. This is an enviable couple, I heard that they drifted from the far south for love, with a guitar, and songs full of vicissitudes, and love, opened this warm paradise for the people of Sanhe.

Momoko chose a window seat and beckoned. The young waitress approached with a smile on her face and asked her what she needed. Momoko casually ordered a cup of "tears of sadness". This is an ice wine created by the owner, with a light fruity flavor mixed with a fragrant barley wine, which looks like wine and is not wine, but it stimulates people's taste sense more than drinks. Sometimes when I drink too much, I will get carried away and tell some little secrets that I can't tell on weekdays. Of course, it's not drunk, it's a desire to pour out.

Of course, this is how Momoko felt before, and most of the time, she is soaked here with Ye Zihe.

At last it was three o'clock, and the light of the shepherd's house moved, and a shadow flashed in. When Momoko saw it, she was so surprised that she died. She could never have imagined that such a person would call her to come. In the hazy light, the thief was looking left and right, a migrant worker in his thirties. I saw that his hair grew like artemisia grass in a panic, his face was long, and his neck was stretched out like a rooster. Momoko was wondering if it was this person, when she saw him come over with a big grin and sit directly across from her. The waiter looked at Peaches in surprise, and Peaches looked embarrassed and stunned for a moment. For a moment, she said, as if she were saving herself, "Here's a beer." ”

As soon as he heard the beer, the other party laughed, showed a mouthful of burnt teeth, and said, "Two bottles, get a pack of good cigarettes." ”

"What's the matter, tell me." After the beer is opened, the peach is opened.

The man took a big puff, lit a cigarette, inhaled beautifully, spit out a mouthful of black smoke, and asked, "Secretary Zheng, how is he?" ”

"Okay." Momoko replied subconsciously.

"I'm going to say it, he's not going to be good." The man smiled stealthily and said something that kept Momoko from opening her mouth.

After a while, Momoko was bold and stared at the other man's face, which was younger than what he had just seen, but his skin was rough, and he had not bathed for many years, which gave him an old light color.

The light is disgusting. Momoko held back the disgust in her heart, looked away from the man, and swept out the window. The scenery outside the window is indeed very beautiful, Zilan Mountain is enchanting, but in Peach's heart, it is another bitterness. This guy seems to be deliberately trying to make Peaches uncomfortable, and for a long time he only heard the sound of him drinking beer, and his eyes jumped on Peaches very restlessly. Peaches finally couldn't bear it anymore and said, "I'm not here to drink beer with you, what's the matter, tell me quickly." ”

"Just say it." The man probably saw that Peaches was unfriendly, and was a little angry. "You have to listen well, I'll tell you, but don't scare you."

Momoko glared at him in disgust, and her heart couldn't help but skip a beat. What the hell is this guy going to say?

What happened next shocked Momoko even more, and as soon as the man was halfway through his words, Momoko cried out, "You lied! ”

"I'm not lying!" The man screamed too, his voice bordering on terror.

Momoko held back the fire. "If you dare to talk nonsense again, I'm welcome!"

"Hehe, who do you think you are! The county magistrate's wife? you, I'll make a phone call and make your family finish! The man suddenly showed a fierce face, and Momoko didn't dare to listen to it, so she turned around and wanted to leave. Unexpectedly, he suddenly stretched out his big rough hand and pressed Peaches' soft shoulders hard, and Peaches felt as if her shoulder had been bitten beautifully.

"Touch me less!"

"If you don't touch it, you don't touch it, you have to listen to me." The guy suddenly became stubborn and brutal.

Momoko had no choice but to sit down again and listen to him finish.

The man told a terrible truth! Momoko only felt a bang in her head, and she couldn't remember how she spent the rest of the time. By the time she walked out of the shepherd's house, the setting sun had covered the entire Three Rivers. Peaches went back groggily, and in her mind, she only remembered one number, two hundred thousand!

The man said, give him 200,000 and forget about it!

"Two hundred thousand!" He really dared to ask for it.

When he was about to get home, a thought popped into Momoko's mind, if he could really forget it, I would give him 200,000!

She was not in the mood to eat peaches for dinner, and she was not in any mood, so she looked forward to Zheng Yuan coming back and asking clearly. Home turned colorless in an instant, this is her warm home! It is the home that carries her life's happiness and dreams. The phone rang, Peaches ran over, and Zheng Yuan said on the phone: "We are on the way, you hurry up to the hospital and contact the ward first." Peaches grabbed the phone, her hands couldn't help shaking, Zheng Yuan asked a few words, she was stunned, and finally, muttered: "Two hundred thousand." ”

"What did you say, Momoko, what's wrong with you?" Zheng Yuan asked anxiously over there, but Momoko softly lost the phone.

"Two hundred thousand." She repeated it.

Momoko met Zheng Yuan in the autumn of the third year after graduating from university, and the Zilan Mountain in that autumn was very beautiful, and the red leaves covered the valleys. The red leaves of Zilan Mountain are a beautiful scenery, which makes people never get tired of seeing it, and every time autumn comes, the overwhelming red will make Zilan Mountain shine brightly. Clothed in the warm sun, bathed in the breeze, and stepping on the flame-like red leaves, people will feel like they are being burned and boiled. Momoko, who was born as a reporter, often sends her footsteps there, and she feels that her future life is so amorous and so intense. Yes, intense. She longs for a passionate life that is always in the process of being released, and even more longs for a love that ignites a raging fire when they meet and will never be extinguished for a lifetime. That autumn evening, on the mountain road covered with red leaves, Peaches met the young Zheng Yuan by chance, it was like fate, and at first glance they were destined to love and live together in this life. At that time, Zheng Yuan accompanied Yuan Bo for a walk, and he recognized the newly appointed political and legal secretary of Sanhe City. Sanhe has just eradicated an underworld force, and the people are vying for legends. As a reporter for "Social Column", Taozi interviewed Yuan Bo. Yuan Bo's eloquent conversation and Sanhe's native humor left a good impression on her. But Momoko doesn't know much about him, the young secretary. It was precisely by the skillful hands of Secretary Yuan Bo that these two "mandarin ducks" came together.

After marriage, they held on to this love together, and although they had no children, it did not affect the perfection of life at all. Yes, perfect. Momoko thinks she is a perfect woman, with a career, a beautiful face that can stand the test of time, a husband who loves her more than herself, and a good friend like Zihe, what is not satisfied? I really missed the child, so I kidnapped Duoduo and raised her like her own daughter for a while, and survived her mother's addiction.

A woman can live like this, and you say she doesn't thank God?

However, this hateful country man actually broke her happiness and tranquility in this way!

When Zheng Yuan and the others arrived, Peaches had been busy in the hospital for a long time. On the outside, Momoko doesn't look like a person with a heart at all. The beds in the ward had already been made, including the tiniest drinking cups and sanitary napkins. Don't say it, when you do these things, peaches are really stronger than Ye Zihe. In the past years, Peaches actually served as half of the Nanny of Ye Zihe's family. Especially Duoduo, I often see her more than Ye Zihe.

There was a mess in the ward, Ye Zihe looked very bad, and Duoduo was less troubled than in the past, and the little girl was really sensible. Peaches held back the pain in her heart and kissed Duoduo on the face, Duoduo ran out like tears in her eyes, and Peaches hurriedly avoided it.

At this time, I saw Zheng Yuan rushing over, and he didn't avoid people, and asked directly: "What's going on on the phone?" Momoko smiled wryly and said, "It's okay, I miss you." Zheng Yuan felt that she was a little strange today, and was about to ask something, but the doctor over there was already shouting.

After settling Ye Zihe, Zheng Yuan was in a hurry to rush to Wushui again. Tomorrow, Sun Jihai will go to Wushui to supervise investment promotion, this matter is a bit troublesome, and Zheng Yuan can't delay. Looking at the back of her husband who came and went in a hurry, Momoko suddenly understood that the man named Huang Dawu did not tell a lie, and what happened that night must have happened.

Sun Jihai, deputy secretary of the municipal party committee, arrived in Wushui at 9 a.m., accompanied by leaders of the Economic and Trade Commission, the Planning Commission, the Federation of Industry and Commerce, and other departments. Zheng Yuan took Wu Shui and his people and waited in the conference room early. The report meeting was short and neat, and Zheng Yuan only took half an hour to report on Wushui's investment promotion. Next, he waited to be criticized. Whether you do a good job or a bad job, there are always people who keep finding fault with you, and how can you not have problems with your current work. Zheng Yuan has long been used to it, he said in private, if there are too many mosquitoes, don't bite, the key is that you have to be resistant, you can't take criticism as criticism, just like you can't take praise as praise. There is a philosophical problem here, that is, the leader's criticism or praise does not depend entirely on your work, but more on the leader's mood or situational needs. If you catch up with the good times, you can also become Lei Feng if you pick up a penny on the side of the road.

Sure enough, Sun Jihai was in a very bad mood that day, and he hardly allowed everyone present to express any opinions, so he asked Zheng Yuan directly: "How much have your goals and tasks been implemented?" Zheng Yuan said that it was less than half. Sun Jihai frowned and asked again: "How much money has been in place for the project introduced last year?" Zheng Yuanyuan's skin was numb, and he felt a little struggling, so he calmed down and said, "Less than a third." "A third?" Sun Jihai threw down his pen snapped, "How did you do this job?" Last year, you won the first place in three counties and one district, but this first can't just stay in the numbers, you can't implement the funds, what kind of business to recruit, what county to live? As soon as Sun Jihai was angry, everyone present raised their hearts. Sun Jihai's criticism is indeed right, the current investment promotion has become a kind of rush game, and the work is all focused on signing and negotiating. At the annual work report meeting, or a variety of forms of investment promotion meetings, each county and district has a large number of letters of intent, and the report is full of relish, but to what extent it can be implemented, few people ask. Sun Jihai's question was regarded as a sore question, and Wu Shui's leaders all lowered their heads.

Zheng Yuan felt aggrieved and unconvinced, it is true that if the funds are not in place, it is equivalent to empty talk, but this problem is not the existence of Wu Shui's family, but universal. According to his grasp, compared with the counties and districts, Wushui has the best implementation, and some are afraid that even one-fifth of it has not been implemented. But can you say that? Sun Jihai criticized you Wu Shui, and you Wu Shui did not implement it, this is the truth, and you are not allowed to quibble at the meeting.

Zheng Yuan simply packed up the folder and waited for it to be ready.

Almost everyone here knows that in Sanhe, Sun Jihai is Zheng Yuan's nemesis, not that Sun Jihai and Zheng Yuan have any holidays, but Sun Jihai doesn't look down on Zheng Yuan at all. Sun Jihai has always had a grudge against people who are too capable, not that he is jealous of the virtuous and capable, but there is a problem of concept and personal work style. This kind of being too capable refers to those who want to do something too much, such as Che Guangyuan, such as the current Ma Qiming, there is a problem, that is, they want to do something too much. If people want to do something too much, there is a possibility that they don't want to do something. This is dialectical and cannot be avoided. If you want to blame others too much, you won't see the good in them; If you want to get ahead too much, you will neglect your own cultivation. In short, Sun Jihai believes that leading cadres must not have this problem, and their work must take into account the overall situation and be thorough, not that they should do whatever they want, and who will be left with what they don't want to do? For example, Wu Shui, Secretary Yuan Bo always used how much the peasants' incomes had increased, how many new roads had been built, and how many factories had been built to prove Zheng Yuan's ability. But on the other hand, how is your family planning in Wushui, how has the planting structure been adjusted in the mountainous areas for many years, the small coal kilns have been closed, and the vegetation has been protected, but how to solve the problem of coal use by farmers in the mountainous areas? Relying on the export of labor services has indeed increased per capita income, but the money spent on buying coal and grass has also increased several times every year. These were all raised by Sun Jihai at the meeting to refute Secretary Yuan Bo. Sun Jihai repeatedly emphasized that as the secretary of the county party committee, we should not only focus on the big things and the things that can be seen, but also put our minds on the small things and the subtleties, so that we can look like a public servant of the people.

This controversy is endless, from the day Secretary Yuan Bo proposed to let Zheng Yuan enter the municipal party committee, the contradiction has been clarified, and no one has won or lost until now. Spread to the bottom, it is another rhetoric, which has evolved into a struggle between two camps and two forces.

Zheng Yuan himself thinks so.

Zheng Yuan was still angry, and Sun Jihai asked again: "How is the progress of the dehydrated vegetable project?" ”

The county magistrate, who had not been able to interject, was busy relieving Zheng Yuan: "I'm sorry, this project is currently the most difficult, and the other party has proposed to withdraw its investment." ”

"Divestment? Play the piano around! Sun Jihai was really angry this time, and said very unceremoniously, "It's right that Li Xinran grasped this project, but Li Xinran has a problem, and I can't let the project also have problems, I don't believe it, without Li Xinran, none of you can retain foreign businessmen?" Sun Jihai paused for a while, and then said, "If this is the case, I will doubt the ability of your team." ”

This is very artistic, and very knowledgeable, as soon as the discerning person heard it, he beat the drum in his heart, it seems that this is what Secretary Sun wants to say today.