Chapter 879: Provincial Construction Committee

In about twenty-five minutes, the taxi stopped at the entrance of Junyue Hotel. Getting off the car and paying the bill, Zhao Desan called Su Qing at the entrance. After a long while, she answered the phone and said directly: "Desan, you wait at the entrance for a while, I'll be out in a few minutes."

Zhao Desan heard the noise on the phone, said "Oh," and hung up the phone, thinking to himself, if I had known, I would have enjoyed Section Chief Lan in Hanting Hotel before coming over. Coming over so hurriedly and she not coming out, it's really...

Standing at the entrance of the five-star Junyue Hotel, Zhao Desan lit a cigarette and waited for Su Qing to come out. From time to time, a luxury car would pass by. He counted them idly. Out of ten cars passing by, at least five were Audis, and the other five were either Mercedes-Benz or BMWs. From this, one could see how many officials were squandering taxpayers' money eating, drinking, and having fun in such super-standard high-end places every day. And Su Qing was one of them. Although Zhao Desan had the idea of being an honest official who was clean and dedicated to the people deep down, ever since the first day he entered the officialdom, he understood a truth: in the path of official career, if you don't play some tricks and use some crooked ideas, you won't achieve anything at all. This society in China is just like this, the weak are the prey of the strong, the winner is the king and the loser is the bandit. Whoever can stand at the top of the power pyramid has the right to point out the country. When climbing to the top of the pyramid, there will definitely be people trying hard to step on you, and at the same time, your feet are also stepping on the bodies of competitors. Zhao Desan had been in the officialdom for several years and had seen these power possessors who drove Audi cars and ate, drank, and had fun in high-end hotels while claiming to serve the people. Seeing an Audi car coming, he took a step back voluntarily.

After a few minutes, he heard a group of people talking and laughing coming from the hotel gate. Zhao Desan looked in the direction of the sound and saw a group of fat-eared, big-bellied men with big bellies coming out, surrounding another big-bellied man.

Don't know which unit it is again, Zhao Desan thought to himself. Just as he was about to turn his head with no interest, he suddenly discovered that Sister Su was also among that group of men. She was also echoing others, talking and laughing. From the respectful appearance of the group of people surrounding the fat man in the middle, Zhao Desan knew that the man was not a simple character. At least his official position was above the level of the Minister of the Provincial Organization Department, at least in the position of Secretary-General of the Provincial Party Committee Office, belonging to the Provincial Standing Committee and Party Group members.

He looked carefully at the old man surrounded by a group of people. How did Zhao Desan feel this person looked familiar? His brain turned a circle, thought carefully, and only then remembered that he had seen this person on the news of Hexi Provincial TV Station. He was the Executive Vice Governor who fully presided over the daily work of Hexi Province. This was the highest-level official Zhao Desan had seen so far, so he was a bit excited. He watched intently as a group of people surrounded him and arrived at an Audi A8 not far away. Another man immediately opened the car door respectfully, held the roof of the car with his hand, afraid he would hit his head, and sent him into the car with a smile.

A group of people nodded and bowed to see that car off, then gradually dispersed to other Audi cars, got into the cars, and left one after another. In the end, only Su Qing and a middle-aged man remained standing next to their car talking. Zhao Desan had an extra heart at this time. In order to know more big leaders, he walked up with a smile on his face calmly and called out softly: "Cousin."

Su Qing appeared a bit drunk, but still maintained a clear mind and was talking to this middle-aged man. Hearing Zhao Desan's voice, she turned her face to look with the middle-aged man simultaneously.

Zhao Desan lowered his head, appeared very respectful, nodded to this strange man, and called out to Su Qing: "Cousin."

"Minister Su, who is this?" The middle-aged man looked at Zhao Desan and asked Su Qing with a smile.

Su Qing paused for a moment and said with a chuckle: "Oh, this is my cousin Zhao Desan. Comrade Xiao Zhao, this is Deputy Mayor Shi Nanzheng of our Xijing City."

"Deputy Mayor Shi, hello, hello." After Su Qing's explanation, Zhao Desan was extremely sensible, bent down slightly, stretched out his hands to hold his hand, and greeted him enthusiastically.

Shi Nanzheng shook hands with him politely, withdrew his hand, and asked with a chuckle: "Comrade Xiao Zhao, where do you work?"

"Provincial Construction Committee, civil servant exam passed this year." Su Qing answered for him.

Shi Nanzheng nodded with a smile. Su Qing said with a chuckle: "Alright, Deputy Mayor Shi, it's getting late, I've drunk a bit too much, let Comrade Xiao Zhao come over to drive and send me back. You go back early too, I've remembered your matter." Saying this, Su Qing took out the car key, pressed it, the car lights flashed, handed the key to Zhao Desan casually, and prepared to get in the car.

"Minister Su, be careful." Shi Nanzheng immediately helped her open the car door respectfully, and sent Su Qing into the car respectfully just like sending the Vice Governor into the car just now.

"Director Shi, goodbye." Zhao Desan said goodbye to Shi Nanzheng with a fawning smile, walked around to the side, and sat in the driver's seat. Shi Nanzheng, standing by the car, waved at Su Qing with a smile, and watched respectfully as Zhao Desan drove Su Qing away.

Su Qing had drunk quite a lot of alcohol and had been holding on, until she sat in the back seat and closed her eyes to rest, becoming so quiet she didn't even speak.

"Sister Su, was that fat man who left in the car first the Vice Governor?" Zhao Desan asked while driving.

Su Qing opened her eyes slightly to look, closed them again, and nodded with a very tired look, saying: "Mm, yes."

"Was there something going on tonight? Such a big group of people." Zhao Desan asked in confusion while driving. Just now by the car, he heard Sister Su say she wanted to handle something for Deputy Mayor Shi.

"Isn't it because the 11th Standing Committee Meeting of Hexi Province is going to be held in a month? Shi Zheng-nan wants to go to the province, so he arranged a dinner tonight." Su Qing said while panting, leaning on the seat. At this moment, the alcohol was coming up, and she felt her head starting to get dizzy.

"That Deputy Mayor Shi has such face, actually able to invite the Vice Governor over?" Zhao Desan turned his head and looked at Su Qing in confusion. He thought to himself, this Deputy Mayor Shi's face was really not small, actually able to invite Executive Vice Governor Zhu Dawei to eat together.

Su Qing closed her eyes and smiled lightly, saying: "Vice Governor Zhu is Shi Nanzheng's cousin. Do you think if there was no relationship, Vice Governor Zhu would take time out of his busy schedule to eat this meal?"

Zhao Desan simply couldn't believe his ears. How come the closer to the center of power, the more complex the relationships between these people were? He only knew he had seen a relationship chart of high-level leaders and their children on the Internet. He didn't expect that the exchanges between the policy makers at the highest level and the officials at the provincial and municipal levels were so close and the relationships so complex. Thinking of himself again, with no relationship and no background, he just accidentally had good luck and met this female Minister of the Provincial Organization Department, using his young and strong body to exchange for a bright future. If one day he really climbed to the provincial level, he was afraid it wouldn't be so easy to achieve anything. As for Su Qing's power, he didn't know anyone else above her.

"How come the relationships between officials are so complex?" Zhao Desan said while driving.

"China is a society of human feelings. Who with a bit of power wouldn't take care of their relatives and friends? Nepotism is very serious. Didn't you also get into the Construction Committee because Sister pleaded for you?" Su Qing said while panting with her eyes closed.

Zhao Desan laughed with a chuckle. Suddenly, Su Qing opened the car window and poked her head out to vomit. Zhao Desan immediately stopped the car slowly on the side of the road, took the tissue box from behind the windshield, got out of the car, opened the back door, got in, and while gently patting her back, handed over a tissue and asked: "Sister Su, are you okay?"

Su Qing lay on the car window and vomited for a long while, vomiting everything in her stomach, only then feeling slightly more comfortable. She took it from his hand and wiped the filth at the corner of her mouth hard, retracted her head from the window, leaned heavily on the seat, panted with effort, and said: "Drank too much alcohol tonight, only focused on chatting, didn't eat much, stomach was empty, and it was easy to get drunk drinking alcohol."

Zhao Desan looked at her with blame, handed over another tissue, and said in a reproachful tone: "Who told you to drink so much alcohol? I specifically told you to drink less, and you drank so much."

Su Qing turned her head and laughed with a red face: "Desan, it seems you still don't understand. Drinking alcohol is a very deep study. If Vice Governor Zhu wasn't present tonight, I wouldn't have drunk so much no matter what. But Vice Governor Zhu was there, Sister definitely had to toast, right? Even if I didn't give Deputy Mayor Shi face, I had to give his cousin Vice Governor Zhu face, right? After drinking with Shi Nanzheng, I definitely had to drink with others below. Going back and forth like this, I drank too much."

After Su Qing said this, Zhao Desan had nothing to say. He had also been in the officialdom for several years, just in the bottom officialdom. But in the Chinese officialdom, regardless of level, the wine table culture was exactly the same. Eating with such big leaders, naturally, it was inconvenient to push away wine, so he looked at her with understanding.

"Go buy a bottle of water for Sister, I'm a bit thirsty." After vomiting, Su Qing felt the filth in her mouth wasn't cleaned up, and secondly, she felt very thirsty, so she wanted to drink some water. Just happening to see a 24-hour convenience store with lights on by the street, she instructed Zhao Desan to buy water for her.

"Alright, Sister Su, wait a moment." After knowing that the relationship network of high-level leaders was very complex, thinking that he didn't have any relatives or friends who were high officials in a true sense, and currently only maintaining the relationship with Sister Su and using her power to climb up little by little, he was particularly attentive to her. Hearing her say she was thirsty, he opened the door obediently, got out of the car, ran to the convenience store not far away to buy a bottle of mineral water, bought another bottle of milk tea, ran back, sat in the car, first unscrewed the mineral water bottle, handed it over, and said: "Sister Su, rinse your mouth first."

Su Qing took the unscrewed mineral water bottle, took a gulp, raised her head, rinsed her mouth with a "gurgle gurgle" sound, turned around, poked her head out of the window, and spat out the mineral water in her mouth. Zhao Desan opened the milk tea and handed it over: "Sister Su, drink some milk tea, your stomach will feel more comfortable." ===== CHAPTER 880 =====