Chapter 262: Municipal Committee Secretary Chen

The call was from Chen Meng, telling Huang Weiwei that she is pregnant!

This news is like a heavy bomb, blowing me into a state of bewilderment as well.

The child in Chen Meng's belly is He Jiaxiao's! This is the conclusion Chen Meng is very certain about. Huang Weiwei panics and keeps asking me what to do.

What can I do? This guy He Jiaxiao is truly amazing! I sigh in my heart. The matter of Xuelai hasn't been dealt with yet, and now another one, Chen Meng, has popped up. I can think of ways to settle the Xuelai matter, but Chen Meng is the daughter of the Municipal Committee Secretary. In Hengyue City, who can settle that?

I am sighing that He Jiaxiao's seed is truly damn powerful; any field he tills yields a harvest!

I comfort Huang Weiwei: "Don't panic. Who else knows about this?"

Huang Weiwei thinks for a moment and says: "You, me, and Chen Meng herself. Just the three of us know."

"She herself must know, of course," I tease her: "If she didn't know, how would you know?"

Huang Weiwei blushes, reaches out to pinch me, and says pitifully: "Feng, you have to think of a way for her. If Uncle Chen finds out, Sister Chen Meng will have no way out."

From Huang Weiwei's mouth, I know that Secretary Chen's family upbringing is extremely strict. From the moment Chen Meng was born, she was raised among the common people just like the children of ordinary folks. At that time, Secretary Chen was still a County Committee Secretary, and since it was the only child in three generations, having a daughter was just the way it was. Secretary Chen raised his daughter like a boy from a young age, to the point that when Chen Meng grew to fifteen, she didn't even know how to wear a skirt.

Secretary Chen raising his daughter like a son was famous at the time. When his daughter made a mistake, his method of punishment was the same as when other people's sons made mistakes: kneeling as a light punishment, and being beaten with a leather belt as a heavy one.

By the time his daughter graduated from university, Secretary Chen had his heart set on her entering politics, even entrusting people to place his daughter in the provincial capital to gain experience for a few years, waiting until the time was ripe to place his daughter under his own command, keeping an eye on her growth.

Who knew that his daughter Chen Meng would erupt with the most intense opposition of her life, firmly refusing to enter politics and insisting on becoming a reporter. Becoming a reporter is too easy a thing for Secretary Chen. But he didn't want his daughter to be a reporter; the reporter profession is no different from being a soldier, living through life and death, and they are most often found in the most dangerous places.

The father and daughter were at odds for a while, and Secretary Chen went out personally to change his daughter's dispatch certificate at her school, changing the original dispatch to the Hengyue Daily to the Provincial Government Affairs Bureau.

When Chen Meng got the dispatch certificate from school and saw it wasn't the originally assigned unit, she went to the school to make a scene. The school couldn't afford to offend him, so they called Secretary Chen over. When he arrived, he saw Chen Meng sitting on the roof of the teaching building with her legs crossed, declaring that if they didn't change the dispatch certificate back for her, she would jump off the building.

Secretary Chen was greatly shocked and had to beg Chen Meng to come down and talk first. How could Chen Meng fall for her father's trick? The father and daughter were one on the roof and one on the ground, forming a tug-of-war, attracting everyone in the school to watch the fun. The fire brigade was also dispatched, bringing a fire truck to rescue them at any time.

Secretary Chen is a Mayor of a city, and his face was completely lost because of his unreasonable daughter; he was so angry at the time he almost vomited blood. It was Secretary Chen's wife, Aunt Mo, who made up her mind: since her daughter wants to be a reporter, let her be! A grown daughter is not under her father's control!

From then on, Chen Meng's relationship with her father was always at the point of being incompatible like fire and water. From then on, Secretary Chen kept an even tighter watch on his daughter, fearing another mishap, not to mention losing his daughter, he would be left with a lifelong regret.

Huang Weiwei tells me these stories, letting me know the severity of the problem.

In the past, Chen Meng dared to fight her father, as it was a difference in personal career and hobby choices. Now, Chen Meng is pregnant out of wedlock. If it spreads, what face does he, the Municipal Committee Secretary, have to lead the millions of people in Hengyue City?

In the eyes of the common people, an improper family style is actually an improper family, and an improper family door is more serious than any other problem. For someone as high-ranking and powerful as Secretary Chen, when his social image affects his personal image, he will take risks!

"Where is Chen Meng now?" I ask, having an idea in my heart.

"At home. Crying," Huang Weiwei answers me with a sad face, and then says, puzzled: "Sister Meng wasn't like this before. I've been with her for more than ten years and have never seen her cry."

"Let's go to her house!" I say, opening the car door and getting in.

Huang Weiwei hesitates and says: "We're not going home?"

"Why go back? Your friend is in trouble, if we don't go to help her, who will?"

Huang Weiwei smiles gratefully and starts the car.

When the car reaches the Municipal Committee family compound, the sentry at the gate salutes politely. We park the car at Chen Meng's door, lock the doors, and prepare to enter.

After walking two steps, I turn back, ask Huang Weiwei to open the car door, take out the ginseng that Bureau Chief Chen Yazhi gave to my mother, and knock on Secretary Chen's door.

The aunt who opens the door recognizes Huang Weiwei. Seeing us, she opens her mouth in surprise and points quietly inside, whispering: "Secretary Chen and the others are all at home."

Secretary Chen is at home, which I didn't expect. I have only seen the Municipal Committee Secretary on TV, never a living one. Suppressing my pounding heart, I follow Huang Weiwei into the home of the Municipal Committee Secretary.

Secretary Chen's home is clearly different from my uncle's. First of all, it is a three-story small villa. From the outside, it is a typical European style, but inside, it is an antique Chinese landscape.

Secretary Chen's building was originally the residence of Shen Jiayue, the biggest capitalist in Hengyue City before liberation, and the entire Municipal Committee family compound was Shen Jiayue's back garden. After liberation, the prefectural committee didn't have time to build new dormitories, so they transformed Shen Garden into the prefectural committee family compound and built several small buildings. My uncle's house was built later.

The living room in the house is so large that it feels vast. A tall glazed lamp hangs from the ceiling, the bulb hidden in the white glaze, the light soft and bright.

A precious sword hangs on the wall facing the door, the colorful tassels at the end of the sword showing signs of age, allowing one to see at a glance that this is a sword with some history.

Under the stairs leading to the upper floor is a liquor bar, and on the shelves on the wall behind the bar are several bottles of liquor whose names I cannot name.

When Secretary Chen and Aunt Mo see Huang Weiwei, they both affectionately call her nickname: "Xiaoxiao is here."

Huang Weiwei has something on her mind, so she smiles reluctantly. Calling out to Secretary Chen and the others, she wants to go upstairs.

Secretary Chen responds to her words, glances at me, examines me for a long time, and says nothing.

Huang Weiwei quickly introduces me, especially introducing that I am her boyfriend and currently a town mayor in Chunshan County.

As soon as Secretary Chen hears that I am a town mayor, his interest is piqued, and he points to a chair: "Sit."

Seeing a real Municipal Committee Secretary for the first time, I am so nervous that I am sweating all over, and I don't know where to put my hands. After being awkward for a long time, I sit on half a buttock on the chair, but I dare not say a word.

Secretary Chen notices my awkwardness and tells his wife, Aunt Mo, to pour me tea. I quickly stand up to pour it myself, but Secretary Chen waves his big hand: "At home, don't be so formal. You sit, relax, my house isn't a dragon's den or a tiger's lair."

Secretary Chen's straightforwardness makes me relax, but after all, he is the Municipal Committee Secretary, so I still dare not be too presumptuous, sitting straight, looking straight ahead, and answering Secretary Chen's words properly.

"Which town are you the mayor of?" Secretary Chen asks me with a full face of smiles.

"Reporting to the leader, I am the mayor of Suxi Town, Chunshan County. My name is Chen Feng," I answer him loudly. Men all like masculinity; only people with psychological abnormalities would like sissy women.

The first sentence can often leave an impression on others that is hard to change.

"Oh," Secretary Chen ponders for a moment, turns his head and asks his wife: "Is it the place where eighteen stone coffins were dug up?"

Aunt Mo is a cadre in the Municipal Committee's External Publicity Office and usually has the power to censor news in the whole city.

"That's the place. The Provincial Committee took the stone coffins directly, and we in Hengyue City only got a reputation. However, the province rewarded you with three million, is that true?" Aunt Mo wears reading glasses, her eyes looking over the top of the glasses, making people feel a chill.

I answer that it is true.

"I originally intended to go there to take a look. I really couldn't get away. A national treasure was found in Hengyue City's territory, and I, the Municipal Committee Secretary, haven't even seen half a glance of it. It's a pity," Secretary Chen sighs, seeing Huang Weiwei still standing on the side, and says in surprise: "Xiaoxiao, aren't you here to find Xiao Meng?"

"I am here to find Sister Meng."

"If you're looking for her, why are you still standing here? Can I chat with your boyfriend for a few words, can you rest assured?" Secretary Chen laughs loudly, making Huang Weiwei's face turn red to the roots of her ears instantly, and she says embarrassedly: "Uncle, I'm going upstairs."

After speaking, she flies up like a swallow, leaving me with Secretary Chen and his wife, Aunt Mo Cuilan, Deputy Director of the Municipal Committee's External Publicity Office.

Once Huang Weiwei is gone, Secretary Chen asks me as if he doesn't care at all: "Little Chen, how many years have you been at the grassroots level?"

"Six years," I say, my attitude extremely respectful.

"What positions have you held?"

"I went down during the social education movement, first serving as a secretary in Suxi Township, was elected as township head the year before last, and after the township and town merger this year, I served as the mayor of Suxi Town." I answer honestly, not daring to say a single wrong word.

"Not bad, grassroots work is very important!" Secretary Chen stares at me and asks: "After being in the countryside for several years, what are your thoughts?"

I think for a moment, feeling that in front of the Municipal Committee Secretary, telling the truth is much more solid than saying empty words.

I say: "Secretary Chen, the situation in rural areas is still very difficult. Although the Party and the government have always attached great importance to the 'three rural issues', the foundation is thin, the population is large, and the land is small, especially industry, which is basically at a zero state. Although reform and opening up is happening now, farmers who have dealt with land all their lives still don't understand what reform and opening up has to do with them. Over these years, whether in material life or spiritual life, compared to the past, there have been great changes, but to be honest, there are still many unsatisfactory places."

I stop, secretly gauging Secretary Chen's expression, pondering whether to continue.

Secretary Chen waits for a while, finds that I haven't spoken, looks up at me and says: "Continue, speak the truth."

My heart stirs, and I decide to take a gamble! ===== CHAPTER 263 =====