Chapter 1405

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

This commendation and study conference for brave acts could be said to have been held extremely successfully.

After the meeting ended, Zhou Zhiliang specifically sought out Wang Xiaohua.

"Comrade Wang Xiaohua, you are a very good cadre! Boundless prospects ahead!"

Zhou Zhiliang, face full of smiles, directly praised Wang Xiaohua, without beating around the bush, making Wang Xiaohua a bit embarrassed.

He could only politely reply with a sentence:

"No, no, it's all thanks to the leaders' correct guidance."

Zhou Zhiliang said at this time:

"My niece, sometimes she does things without a sense of proportion. Take this time speaking on stage for example — she stole the spotlight a bit. Clearly you are the protagonist of the brave act, yet her wording wasn't rigorous enough. But she's just a young girl, immature. Hope you don't mind."

With Zhou Zhiliang having said this, what else could Wang Xiaohua say?

He could only smile politely and say:

"I think she spoke quite well. Her content was much richer than mine. Our Poverty Alleviation Office needs exactly a talent like her who can write articles, handle affairs, and deliver speeches!"

Actually Wang Xiaohua hadn't planned to fuss over it.

But Zhou Zhiliang still came to give Wang Xiaohua a heads-up just to be safe.

Everyone get along well — you good, me good, everyone good!

Just afraid things would turn sour, and Wang Xiaohua, this Poverty Alleviation Office director, would give his niece Liu Yumeng a hard time. He's the Police Station Chief, sure, but public security personnel and government cadres belong to two completely different systems. Inside the Town Government, this Police Station Chief can't influence much.

Seeing Wang Xiaohua speak so politely and kindly now, Zhou Zhiliang's inner worries dissipated like smoke.

Earlier He Gaofeng told him Wang Xiaohua was a top-tier talent with both ability and literary talent; he hadn't quite believed it. Today after interacting a bit, exchanging a few words face to face, he finally felt that Wang Xiaohua's EQ was indeed quite a bit higher than many people's.

Not fighting for credit, not snatching credit, knowing propriety, knowing trade-offs.

Truth be told, even many veteran cadres might not be able to achieve this.

Yet Wang Xiaohua did it.

No wonder the Town Government people all like him so much, value him so much.

Such a talent — he likes him too!

So he struck while the iron was hot and extended an invitation to Wang Xiaohua:

"Tonight I plan to invite a few leaders to dinner together. You and Yumeng come along too. Rare that everyone's this happy."

Wang Xiaohua didn't want to go, but he also knew he couldn't refuse.

He hasn't made his mark yet. If he refused Zhou Zhiliang now, it might invite all sorts of trouble, even suppression.

Whether Zhong Hongtao or He Gaofeng, they certainly wouldn't fall out with Zhou Zhiliang just to protect a grassroots cadre like him, let alone offend the big family and great power behind Zhou Zhiliang and Liu Yumeng.

"Fine, no problem."

Wang Xiaohua finally smiled and agreed.

Zhou Zhiliang patted Wang Xiaohua's shoulder:

"Good, it's settled then!"

Wang Xiaohua returned to the office and sat heavily in the chair.

Not a trace of joy in his heart; instead a kind of indescribable sorrow arose.

"A man in the jianghu, body not by his own will..."

He muttered this one sentence to himself.

He doesn't smoke, but at this moment, he really wanted to light one up for himself.

He doesn't drink, but at this moment, he really wanted to get himself drunk.

Once again he felt the difficulty of being in this big dye vat.

Although his IQ, his EQ, made him very clearly understand what kind of choices were most favorable to himself, most appropriate.

But after making these choices, he felt that wasn't his true heart.

He thought again of his father-in-law Li Zhongxian, thought of his deceased wife Li Jianjia.

It was an extremely complex emotion, complex to the point of being unspeakable.

Just then, Liu Yumeng also returned to the office.

"Wang Xiaohua, let's go eat together tonight!"

Liu Yumeng had a smile on her face, happy as if it were Spring Festival.

"Mm."

Wang Xiaohua responded with a sound.

Liu Yumeng looked Wang Xiaohua up and down:

"How come you're not happy at all? What do you mean by this? Resent me for stealing your credit?"

Liu Yumeng just entered the workplace, doesn't have many schemes, speaks relatively directly.

But her directness also carries thorns.

And her family background gave her enough confidence to not need so-called high EQ and still get resource allocation ordinary people can't get.

"You mustn't say that! How would I dare resent you?"

Wang Xiaohua hurriedly denied, then also said:

"If I really wanted to talk about this credit, you couldn't steal it from me. I was a member of the Debate Society at Tsinghua University. Speech drafts — not to blow my own trumpet — if I really wrote one, it'd be a hundred times better than yours."

Liu Yumeng let out a dry laugh:

"Then what do you mean?"

Wang Xiaohua sighed:

"No meaning."

"No meaning?" Liu Yumeng was puzzled.

Wang Xiaohua then said:

"I'm saying these so-called honors, they're meaningless. Actually, this commendation for acting bravely, just give it directly to you, no need to drag me into it."

Liu Yumeng, however, said:

"That won't do. My dad said, being a person and doing things, one must still have principles. This matter, you're the main force, so you must have a share of the credit!"

Wang Xiaohua smiled:

"Never thought you still had this principle?"

Liu Yumeng rolled her eyes:

"What? In your eyes, I'm a vicious woman?"

Wang Xiaohua hurriedly denied: "No no, you're quite kind."

Liu Yumeng then said:

"Of course. In university, I even attended the Animal Protection Association! Let me tell you, once I went to the highway, intercepted a freight truck selling cats and dogs, forcibly made that driver release all the cats and dogs!"

Wang Xiaohua looked at Liu Yumeng; as she spoke these words, she actually had a face full of pride, and for a moment he didn't know whether to cry or laugh.

He couldn't help but say a sentence:

"Have you ever thought, the highway, if a car accident happened, what would happen?"

Liu Yumeng said with an innocent face:

"This we really didn't think about. If a car accident happens, call a tow truck and that's it. This isn't the key point. The key point is those kitties and doggies, how pitiful they are, you know?"

Wang Xiaohua laughed dryly; in his heart he couldn't help but retort, this Liu Yumeng has an illness, right?

But some honest truths, really can't be said to someone's face.

He only asked:

"Those kitties and doggies, how did you all handle them afterwards?"

Liu Yumeng then said:

"Released them right there. That highway, both sides are forests. Released them to freedom, they'll surely be very grateful to us! How does that saying go? Life is precious, love is worth more. If for freedom's sake, both can be thrown away! Freedom is the most important!"

Wang Xiaohua couldn't help but say:

"Have you been brainwashed by Western values? Our country, our Party, have always been people-oriented. People's lives are the most important. If because of intercepting those cats and dogs, a major car accident occurred, causing 7 deaths and 11 injuries, then you tell me what to do?"

Liu Yumeng was stunned:

"Wouldn't be that serious, right."

Then she added:

"Don't make assumptions about things that haven't happened, okay! Besides, if a car accident really happened, call 120 and that's it, right?"