Chapter 1410: Rural Absurd Past Events Chapter 1410: Liu Yumeng's Other Side

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

Wang Chang still wanted to continue voicing his inner dissatisfaction, but right then, Liu Yumeng arrived.

He could only shut his mouth.

"Wang Xiaohua, morning. Wang Chang, morning!"

Liu Yumeng wore a smile on her face.

She held two cups of milk tea in her hand, handing one to Wang Xiaohua:

"Wang Xiaohua, this is for you!"

Then she drank the other one herself and said to Wang Chang:

"Didn't you not have to come for a meeting today? Why aren't you staying at the Changjiang Village Committee? What are you doing running over here?"

Wang Chang gave a dry laugh:

"I just came to tell Director Wang a few things. I'll leave once I'm done."

"What things need to be said in person? Can't you just call?" Liu Yumeng asked curiously, then hurriedly added, "Really sorry, I didn't know you were coming over, so I only bought two cups of milk tea, didn't buy yours."

Wang Chang said:

"No worries, no worries. I didn't want your milk tea anyway. I'm heading back to work."

After saying this, he slunk away.

Liu Yumeng looked at Wang Xiaohua:

"What did Wang Chang say to you?"

Wang Xiaohua said:

"Nothing much, just some matters about the poor households at the Changjiang Village Committee."

Liu Yumeng, however, said:

"Give me a break. You can fool others, but you can't fool me. It's definitely because you didn't take him along to eat last night, so he has a grievance against me!"

Hearing this, Wang Xiaohua couldn't help but be stunned.

Looking at it this way, Liu Yumeng isn't entirely stupid either.

But why did she do such a stupid thing last night?

She actually ordered a hot pot for everyone at that dinner!

Wang Xiaohua said:

"You can't blame Wang Common. For him, that kind of opportunity is rare. He doesn't have a background to rely on like you do."

Liu Yumeng said:

"I didn't say I wanted to blame him."

Then she also said:

"In my opinion, people like him who are so capable of working at the grassroots should just stay at the grassroots forever. Only then can they truly serve the people. As for people like me who don't know how to work at the grassroots, we get promoted after a few years and stop tormenting the ordinary people at the grassroots. That's the best outcome, don't you agree?"

Wang Xiaohua gave a dry laugh, momentarily at a loss for words.

There is indeed such a phenomenon within the system: the more capable someone is at getting things done, the less likely they are to get promoted.

There's a promotion paradox here. Most people think the more capable they are at work, the more they demonstrate ability, the more chance they have of promotion. But leaders actually don't see it that way. Leaders consider it from another dimension: if you're this capable and you leave, who will I find to replace you? So it's better to just keep you in your original post!

This point is best exemplified by the secretaries/writers of a County Magistrate, or the secretaries/writers of City Bureau Leaders!

For ordinary secretaries/writers, the more awesome their writing, the more they get kept by the leader's side, the less they can move up.

Liu Yumeng spoke again at this point:

"If I were the Director of the Poverty Alleviation Office, I'd definitely keep talents like Wang Chang working at the grassroots forever. Wang Xiaohua, you should be arranging it that way too, right?"

Wang Xiaohua smiled:

"You'd better not let Wang Chang hear that, or he might just swing his fist and hit you."

Then he hurriedly changed the subject:

"Speaking of which, after you went back from dinner last night, your dad and your uncle, they didn't scold you, did they?"

Liu Yumeng laughed:

"How could they not scold? They scolded terribly, especially my dad. He was so angry he nearly exploded his lungs. He yelled at me: How can you have zero political awareness? Giving birth to you is worse than giving birth to a piece of char siu!"

Wang Xiaohua was stunned, his face showing shock:

"No way, your dad scolded you like that, and you can still laugh right now?"

Liu Yumeng, however, said:

"If I don't laugh, am I supposed to cry?"

Wang Xiaohua grew curious. From the looks of it, Liu Yumeng isn't as stupid as she appears on the surface.

"Tell me, what were you thinking last night? You actually ordered a hot pot for everyone."

Liu Yumeng said:

"My real thought was very simple. It was to tell Xiao Xueqing: don't think just because she's the County Magistrate she can suppress my Liu Family. If she doesn't know what's good for her, then everyone will end up like this hot pot — ultimately, everything cooked in one pot!"

Speaking to here, Liu Yumeng spread her hands, sighing helplessly:

"It's just a pity Xiao Xueqing's comprehension is a bit lacking. She completely didn't understand what my hot pot meant."

Hearing this, Wang Xiaohua was even more shocked.

Actually, never mind Xiao Xueqing not understanding Liu Yumeng's meaning — Wang Xiaohua hadn't thought of that layer of meaning either.

However, this hot pot truly can express the meaning of "cooked in one pot."

One can only say, Liu Yumeng appears carefree on the surface; who could have thought she would still be able to make such an implication?

If it were her father Liu Xinwen who ordered the hot pot, then Xiao Xueqing should be able to grasp it at once.

One can only say, this kind of implicative contest still requires mutually equal circumstances for the other party to grasp it; otherwise it really is just talking at cross-purposes.

Liu Yumeng said at this time:

"After my dad finished scolding me last night, I explained to him the meaning I wanted to express, and he had nothing more to say."

Wang Xiaohua chuckled:

"Put that way, your dad agrees with your behavior?"

Liu Yumeng smiled and said:

"Of course! After all, your daughter me is this clever; how could he bear to scold me again?"

Wang Xiaohua couldn't help but look at Liu Yumeng with new eyes.

This woman looks carefree, but actually she isn't as foolish as she appears on the surface; she even has some scheming.

It seems she cannot be underestimated!

At this time Liu Yumeng spoke again:

"Do you know what my dad said about you after returning home last night?"

"What did he say?" Wang Xiaohua asked curiously.

Liu Yumeng, with a carefree expression, frankly said:

"He said you are Xiao Xueqing's key cultivation target, told me not to get too close to you, and also told me to think of a way to pull you down and take your place!"

Wang Xiaohua's face twitched; he stared at Liu Yumeng in stunned surprise:

"Your dad said these things, and you just told me so matter-of-factly?"

Liu Yumeng, however, said:

"What's there to it? Anyway I don't want to replace you; I can't do such hard work as you! Additionally, I feel my dad lacks format; politics, where is there any distinction between enemy and self? Shouldn't it be you're good, I'm good, everyone's good? I said a talent like you should work hard to build good relations, but he didn't think so; no wonder he's the worst off among those several brothers and sisters."

Wang Xiaohua was surprised once again.

Unexpectedly, Liu Yumeng actually had this kind of thinking.

"So you don't plan to listen to your dad?"

Wang Xiaohua asked weakly.

Liu Yumeng answered decisively: "Need you ask? Of course not!"

Then she said again:

"Right now I sit in the office every day; if I want to go down to the countryside I go, if I don't want to go I don't go; isn't that pretty good?"

Wang Xiaohua was momentarily at a loss for words.

To tell the truth, in the aspect of judging people.

Wang Xiaohua felt this was the first time he had misjudged someone.

This woman Liu Yumeng seems more complex than imagined; she cannot be measured by a general standard.

At this moment Liu Yumeng said to Wang Xiaohua:

"Xiao Xueqing probably still hasn't comprehended my 'one pot cooked' meaning by now; Wang Xiaohua, trouble you to go give her a hint. She's already been in the system for so many years; she really shouldn't be this dull anymore."