Chapter 1 Two years, in the blink of an eye.
(One day in autumn, the afternoon sun is warm and warm, shining on the huge glass wall curtain of the space building, emitting a dazzling light, Beijing Nanyuan Airport, a huge Boeing plane landed smoothly in the roar, and the guests walked out one after another.)
Zhou Jing was in the middle of the crowd, he was wearing a black suit, a white shirt, a sky blue striped tie, a pair of the latest Tyrannosaurus glasses on the bridge of his nose, and a TravelPro tower trolley suitcase, his expression was extremely relaxed and relaxed.
Two years of study abroad, in addition to bringing him an authentic American English, but also let his temperament change faintly, compared with before, he seems more mature, elegant and capable, and his body also reveals an elegant and calm gentlemanly demeanor, which is very eye-catching in the crowd.
Out of the passage, I saw that among the crowd who came to pick up the airport, there was a middle-aged man with a flat head, holding a sign in his hand, on which the word Zhou Jing was written.
Looking at each other, the middle-aged man's eyes lit up, he hurriedly put away the sign, squeezed out the crowd, greeted this side, took out his business card, handed it over with both hands, and said respectfully: "Jing Shao, hello, I am Wu Yimin, Miss Xuefei's driver, I guess she has already mentioned it to you, right?" ”
Zhou Jingjing nodded, took the business card and glanced at it, put it in his pocket, and said with a smile: "Mentioned, Miss Xue Fei went to Italy?" ”
"Yes, Miss Xue Fei and Mr. Wei, Miss Jiani arrived in Italy the day before yesterday to participate in Milan Fashion Week, and she will not be able to come back until two days later. Wu Yimin looked respectful, snatched the suitcase in Zhou Jing's hand, and walked out with him.
Outside the airport, there was a luxury Bentley parked, Wu Yimin opened the car door, asked Zhou Jing to sit tightly, opened the trunk, and carefully put the salute before sitting in the driver's seat, smiling at Zhou Jing, driving away from the airport, and driving towards the city center at a gallop.
Noticing that the other party's movements were clean and neat, and his gestures revealed an extremely tough temperament, very much like a professional soldier who had been tempered by thousands of tempers, not like an ordinary person, Zhou Jing smiled slightly, and asked tentatively: "Master Wu, have you ever been a soldier before?" ”
Wu Yimin drove the car steadily, looked at the inverted mirror, and said softly: "I have been for a while." ”
Zhou Jing was a little curious, took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth, and asked with a smile, "What class?" ”
Wu Yimin smiled incomprehensibly and said casually: "Special forces." ”
Zhou Jing lit a cigarette and said softly: "It's good to be a special soldier!" ”
Wu Yimin sighed and said in a low voice: "It's good, it's just that I'm tired, the military discipline is strict, and if I make some mistakes, I'll be fired!" ”
Zhou Jing sighed, and said with some regret: "That's a pity!" ”
Wu Yimin smiled and said with a relaxed expression: "It's no pity, compared to being in the army, I still prefer my current life." ”
Zhou Jing smiled at the corner of his mouth, stared at the big thick hand on the steering wheel, stretched out his hand and gestured a few times, and teased softly: "Since you are a special soldier, you will definitely do kung fu, teach me a few hands to grapple and fight another day, maybe it can be used for self-defense!" ”
"Okay!" Wu Yimin smiled slightly, glanced at him deeply, and then stopped speaking, but his expression became extremely serious.
Entered the city, drove on the road for nearly an hour, and finally from the southeast gate, turned into a simple and quiet deep house compound, which is full of classical style buildings, blue bricks and green tiles, cloister painting columns, there is a leafy plane tree standing in the courtyard, next to the wall not far away, there are a few bushes of oleander, although in autumn, but there is still a crimson flower crown, a young girl wearing a yellow sundress, combing a high bun, holding a book, is sitting on the bamboo chair under the sycamore, reading attentively, I didn't look up the whole time, and I didn't care, there was an uninvited guest in the yard.
The two got out of the car, Wu Yimin took the suitcase, and walked to the wing room on the east side with Zhou Jing, saying as they walked: "That is the second lady Xue Yi, who is still studying, the pearl of the old man's palm, the family hopes that she will go to Cambridge for further study and study for a doctorate in law, but she refuses, she has to go to Beiying, she wants to be an actor, the family is very opposed, but the second miss is very stubborn, she reads miscellaneous books every day and memorizes lines." ”
"Little girls, naturally they all want to be movie stars!" Zhou Jing said, glanced over there, and it happened that the girl turned her head, looked this way, and looked at each other, and found that the girl's facial features were exquisite, her eyebrows and eyes were picturesque, and her skin was as bright as snow, which was somewhat similar to Concubine Chen Xuefei.
The girl smiled and nodded, then pulled her hair and looked elsewhere, that pure and sweet appearance is very likable, but it does have some capital to be a female star, Zhou Jing smiled slightly, turned around, but saw that Wu Yimin had already opened the door, put the suitcase in, made tea, and said respectfully: "Jing Shao, you can rest first, and when it's time for dinner, I'll come and pick you up!" ”
"Okay, Master Wu, you've worked hard." Zhou Jing was polite, sent him to the door, closed the door, returned to the room, sat on the mahogany sofa, drank tea, looked at the furnishings in the room, the bedroom was full of feminine atmosphere, the sun passed through the purple curtains, turning into a gentle pink, and the table and chair decorations in the room were mostly covered with plain white embroidery interlining, which looked fresh and elegant.
On the opposite wall, there is a large photo, in the middle of it, there is a middle-aged man with a solemn face, and on both sides of him, there are two young girls, one of which is naturally Chen Xuefei, and the other is Chen Xueyi, who is sitting in the courtyard and reading.
Needless to say, the middle-aged man must be Chen Guangyao, the head of the Jinghu Group, when he was abroad, he had heard Chen Xuefei mention his father, although it was only a few words, but Zhou Jing was deeply impressed, after this father, he gave up the opportunity to develop in the political arena more than ten years ago, but concentrated on business, and now has created a shadow business empire, the wealth in his hands, can not be said to be rich and rivaled by the country, but it is also difficult to compare with ordinary consortiums, the strength of Jinghu should not be underestimated by anyone.
The relationship between politics and business is inseparable, which can be seen from the intimacy between officials and businessmen.
And what the Chen family relies on the most, in addition to Chen Kuan Yew's excellent business acumen, there are also deep political resources left by the elders, who have a strong influence in the central, local, and even military circles, over the years, all those who want to fight their ideas often return with a feather, and few people can get cheap, because of this, the Jinghu Group has also become the object of all forces, there are many people who want to make friends with Chen Guangyao, and those who can enter this compound are either rich or expensive, and Zhou Jing is a rare special case.
After drinking a cup of tea, Zhou Jing called his family and a few beauties, reported his safety, and lay on the bed frowning and pondering, these two years have been extremely long for him, and the taste of living like a year and returning to his heart like an arrow is difficult for outsiders to experience.
In the past two years, too many things have happened, Qingyang, Li Weiye, secretary of the municipal party committee, has retired, and the current secretary of the municipal party committee is the former mayor Luo Yunfeng, and the mayor's replacement is his former deputy Yang Qinglin, and the executive deputy mayor is Cao Zhongping.
And the original deputy mayor in charge of education, Zeng Qinming, because of some problems, was almost dismissed, and was later transferred to Lin'an County by Wang Yannian, in charge of agriculture, but his position let Niu Liding, after Niu Li came to power, he turned Yuan Xiuhua into the principal of the middle school, and soon mentioned the Education Bureau, as the deputy director, although Zhou Jing felt ridiculous and tried to stop it, but because he was abroad, he did not stop it.
But speaking of which, Zhou Jing has helped a lot of people, but it seems that only Niu Li can repay his kindness, from this point of view, he still feels extremely grateful, of course, this is also a variety of reasons, father Zhou Xueming and Niu Li are both people from the agricultural machinery factory, and they can be regarded as both prosperous and lossy, saying a thousand ways and ten thousand, the relationship on this line is different, and it is reliable at the critical moment.
Wang Yannian's current situation is not very good, and he has also become an angry little daughter-in-law in Lin An, Zhou Jing has spoken to him several times, and he feels that he has not been as full of ambition as he was in the early stage in the past two years, but because of career setbacks, his morale is low, and he is becoming more and more depressed, of course, Wang Yannian's loss of power, in addition to some personal reasons, is also too fierce with Lin An's officialdom, and it is also related to the transfer of Li Shurong, deputy secretary of the provincial party committee.
A year ago, there was a big shock in the officialdom of West China Province, and a number of heavyweight cadres were implicated and were shot and dismissed, and at that time, Li Shurong, who was honest and upright and had an excellent official reputation, entered the sight of the Central Organization Department and was recommended to West China to serve as governor.
His departure, whether it is for Wang Yannian or Zhou Jing, is a great impact, mixed blessings, which means that the two of them have left their biggest backers, unless they can be transferred to Huaxi, there is no place to borrow, and everything has to start over.
The little beauty Li Siyan also went to work in West China with her father, but she did not serve in the organization department, but went to the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and served as the deputy director of a certain department of the Supervision Department of the Commission for Discipline Inspection. Sometimes during the call, she actually persuaded Zhou Jing to stay away from officialdom, go to the sea to do business, concentrate on making money, and no longer engage in this high-risk profession.
But in Zhou Jing's view, high risk sometimes means high return, since he has chosen the road of official career, there is absolutely no reason to give up halfway, after coming back this time, he did not fly directly to Jiangzhou, but transferred to the capital, just to discuss the next step with Chen Xuefei, in order to plan and then move, in addition, I am also looking forward to meeting Li Jiani as soon as possible to relieve the pain of lovesickness in the past two years.