Chapter 35: Li Daqiang

As the saying goes, it is easy to go from frugality to luxury, and difficult to go from luxury to frugality. Once you are used to a special car, it is difficult to take a shuttle bus, and renting a car is also within the scope of policy permission.

The next day, Lu Fan went to Ningyang again and had to rent a car, which made him have to consider the cost. A trip costs three or five hundred. Although it is public money, it also hurts the heart. Everyone knows that the current unit is the leader's. If the funds have a surplus, there are always ways to "sleeve" it out, so managing the unit should be as frugal as living at home.

Arriving in Ningyang, according to the address sent by Secretary Li Daqiang, Lu Fan found the Grain Bureau staff quarters, located in the center of the county town. It was built only a few years ago, but it had tripled or quadrupled from the original 100,000, which made Lu Fan drool with envy. He thought that when he had money in the future, he must buy one here.

Knocking on the door, Deputy Secretary Meng Qingchi opened the door and laughed, "Xiao Fan, we all came empty-handed to eat for free, but you brought gifts!"

"Deputy Secretary Meng, you are all old partners, and I am the newcomer. It's not good to come empty-handed for the first time. Next year, I will definitely only bring a mouth!"

Li Daqiang came out of the kitchen and complained, "Didn't I tell you yesterday? Don't bring anything!"

Lu Fan put the pressure cooker directly into the kitchen and said, "Secretary, no need to make mutton, this is ready-made, and these two cartons of cigarettes are just right for everyone to smoke."

"Are you afraid I don't have cigarettes at home?"

"Secretary, since I've brought them, I can't take them back, right?"

"Forget it, don't let it happen again! Go out and play cards with them. They are all deputy positions in the township government, and you will have to deal with them often in the future. I specially called you over."

Looking out, it was either the township head, the chairman of the People's Congress, or the deputy secretary. The deputy township head was the lowest configuration, and he was the only one among the leaders of the seven stations and eight offices. It was indeed Secretary Li's special care.

Seeing Lu Fan walk over, Township Head Shi Qiancheng greeted, "Director Lu, play Golden Flower, want to join?" Everyone knew that it was uncertain when they would need the forest farm, so they looked at Lu Fan differently.

"Township Head's instructions, how dare I disobey? It's just that my level is too low, leaders don't laugh at me."

Chairman of the People's Congress Cui Mingliang laughed, "I just like those who are sleepy, those who don't know, and those who are drunk, so I can win money with my eyes closed! Come, sit here."

Lu Fan sat down and asked, "I don't know the rules, how big to play?"

Deputy Secretary Meng Qingchi explained, "Conventional gameplay, 10 yuan base, 200 cap, Golden Flower is bigger than a straight, eating a bomb requires a hard '235', others are old rules."

Lu Fan took out a few hundred-yuan bills and some ten-yuan change to enter the game. In Ningyang, it is estimated that no one would not play such a game. Lu Fan knew very well that as long as he didn't show off, didn't shout, and didn't get carried away, he would lose at most a few hundred yuan, which wouldn't hurt his body, but this was the best way to integrate into the township government leadership layer, and he couldn't let Secretary Li down.

After the game started, Lu Fan appeared very cautious. He would look at the cards after following a round at most. If the cards were small, he would discard them directly, not affecting the leaders' "bloody battle"; if the cards were big, he would follow a few rounds, and it would be difficult for others to "steal the chicken."

After playing for half an hour, he actually won more than three hundred.

So, he took out the three hundred and came a few rounds fiercely, not letting everyone say he had no guts.

But soon he "poured" the money he won out. Sure enough, impulse is the devil.

So, continue to "dog," steady and steady. After winning some more, continue to be fierce for a while, and so on, playing happily, and never getting carried away.

When Secretary Li and his wife shouted for everyone to eat, Lu Fan actually won two or three hundred, just enough to win back today's car rental fee, and without attracting attention, it was simply too happy.

The New Year is coming, and the food is naturally dominated by New Year's tea and rice, with a table full of fish and meat. Lu Fan happened to be hungry, so he ate to his heart's content, preparing for the drinking game later. Drinking on an empty stomach is not good for the body and is easy to get drunk.

From entering the door until now, Chairman of the People's Congress Cui Mingliang has taken great care of Lu Fan, greeting Lu Fan to eat, drink, and play, and helping him integrate into this collective.

Sure enough, those who give gifts must have something to ask for.

Before the drinking game started, Cui Mingliang whispered to Lu Fan, "Xiao Fan, I want to get two pairs of 'wood' for my parents."

Lu Fan agreed without a word, "You set the time, it will definitely be handled properly."

Cui Mingliang's face blossomed with a smile, giving a thumbs up and saying, "Painful! I've greeted Old Li for half a year, and there's still no news. Xiao Fan, in the township government in the future, as long as I can do it, there will be no two words!"

After the drinking game started, Lu Fan, as the youngest, took the initiative to serve tea and water for everyone, putting his posture very low.

After everyone "walked the circle," Lu Fan toasted last, clinking glasses with the leaders one by one. Then, he didn't take the initiative to provoke others, but he didn't refuse anyone who toasted him. In this way, he drank seven or eight taels of Maotai, which was already over the limit.

However, this group of old oilers seemed to have no reaction, in a state of being able to fight another three hundred rounds. Sure enough, township cadres are warriors tested by "alcohol." Lu Fan felt ashamed and inferior, so he simply went to the guest room of the Secretary's house to sleep for a while.

Drinking without being cowardly is an attitude problem, so even if you get drunk, it's not shameful. This is a drinking capacity problem.

Waking up, Lu Fan felt that most of the alcohol had gone. Looking at the time, he had slept for almost two hours.

When he went to the living room to find water to drink, he was surprised to see that the drinking game was still going on. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart, there is really a gap between people. The drinking capacity has not yet been achieved, and comrades still need to work hard!

Li Daqiang greeted Lu Fan to continue drinking. Of course, he couldn't refuse. He had already been a deserter for two hours.

In fact, these leaders were all at the end of their strength, and the situation could not wear out the Lu silk. They were supporting themselves with willpower. Also, before Lu Fan finished a circle, some people began to sway and talk nonsense.

Seeing this, Li Daqiang and Township Head Shi Qiancheng proposed to disperse, personally calling their respective family members to pick them up, which is the case every year.

Lu Fan left with the township head. After going downstairs, the township head actually said, "Xiao Fan, you don't have a girlfriend yet, right? I have a niece who graduated from junior college. She started working last year like you and works in the labor union."

The meaning of the township head is self-evident, but now Lu Fan has no heart for love. He joked, "I have no house, no land, a bleak future, and I have to support my sister in school. How dare I enter the prosperity with a clear poverty, and how dare I delay the beauty with two sleeves of breeze? Aren't you afraid your niece will suffer with me?"

Unexpectedly, Shi Qiancheng didn't care at all and said, "When we got married, who would mention houses and cars? Men, as long as they have ambition, those things will come sooner or later. My niece has a very gentle personality and is not a girl who values wealth and looks down on the poor. When you have time, meet each other, and if you feel right, you can get in touch."

The words have reached this point, and refusing again would be ignorant of good and bad. This is the township head, and he can't give no face at all.

Lu Fan laughed, "Township head, as long as you don't dislike me for being poor and having a burden."

"Xiao Fan, I can tell you, my niece is gentle and virtuous, and she is beautiful. She is definitely a good match. Her name is He Haihai, and she works in the county general labor union. I will arrange the time, and you two meet first."

"Okay, I'll listen to your arrangement."

This is finally finished. Lu Fan took the shuttle bus back to Baishu Bay. It was very uncomfortable to sway all the way. He had to get a car as soon as possible.

In Ningyang, after the twenty-third day of the twelfth lunar month, it officially entered the rhythm of the New Year, and people began to get busy, and the rich New Year flavor permeated the Loess Plateau.

The twenty-third day of the twelfth lunar month is commonly known as the Little New Year. On this day, people will welcome the Stove Horse God, and the forest farm is the same, pasting the portrait of the Stove Horse God on the stove and preparing offerings to worship.

On the twenty-fourth day of the twelfth lunar month, dust is swept from the house. This morning, all the staff of the forest farm worked together to clean up, wipe windows, and dismantle and wash quilts, cleaning everything inside and out.

Today, Liu Jing is on duty, and her husband Xu Zheng drove to accompany her to work. The couple is very loving.

Xu Zheng pushed open Lu Fan's office door with two bottles of wine and two cartons of cigarettes, laughing, "Pay a New Year greeting to the leader!"

Lu Fan quickly got up to pour tea and declined, "Director Xu is scolding me. I'm just temporarily in charge of the work. Maybe one day the new director will be in place. I can't accept the gifts." Then, without saying anything, he sent the gifts back to Xu Zheng's car.

"Director Lu, look at this trouble, just a little bit of heart!"

"Director Xu, you can call me Xiao Fan. I really can't accept the things. Otherwise, how will we get along in the future?"

"Okay, I'm a few years older, let's call each other brothers. Sigh, I'm also just finished, otherwise I would have come up to see you long ago."

"Brother Xu's yamen is big, and the affairs must be complicated. I'm not in a hurry here. If you have time, come up and turn around, let's have a few drinks."

"Sigh, heart tired! The work arranged by the leader can't be handed over. In the past, the director of the municipal bureau was from our Ningyang, and everything was easy to coordinate. Now it has been changed to Leng Jiang, who seems to be targeting our Ningyang everywhere. In two years, the children of the leaders in the county will graduate in a pile, including the children of our director. At that time, there must be a centralized recruitment. I went to the municipal bureau to dock with Director Leng several times, but Director Leng didn't leave any room, asking us to report the post requirements and insisting on unified recruitment by the city. Then what room do we have for operation? How to solve the employment problem of Ningyang people?"

Lu Fan was immediately interested and asked Xu Zheng: "Brother Xu, about which year?"

"Our director's son graduated in 2010, and there are more than a dozen leaders' children who graduated that year. People don't do it for themselves, heaven destroys the earth."

"Then we must win back the autonomy. If the city recruits, people from all counties and districts can apply, squeezing out the quotas of Ningyang people. Spending Ningyang's financial money to raise people from other counties is not as good as not recruiting. It's not that we don't have talent in Ningyang."

"Who says it isn't? So, I am now fully attacking Yu Xiaoting, the section chief of the planning section."

"Brother Xu? Can finding a section chief work?"

Xu Zheng laughed ambiguously, "Brother, you don't know, the section chief can't handle it, but this section chief is special. She can blow pillow wind!"

"Ah?" Lu Fan's heart set off a hundred-foot-high wave. Isn't this Yu Xiaoting Uncle Yang's lover? How did she get together with Leng Jiang so quickly? Or was it wrong before? Is there any hidden feeling in this matter?

The third day of the first show, starting the rating. Five-star reviews are needed. Thank you for your support! ===== CHAPTER 36 =====