Chapter 322: Two pieces of good news

Secretary Liu's room door was wide open, and inside sat the County Magistrate, the County Committee Office Director, and the County Committee Organization Department Minister, who hadn't attended the meeting but had arrived today.

Seeing me enter, they all stood up together, said goodbye to Secretary Liu, and returned to their rooms.

Secretary Liu didn't ask them to stay, ordered them one by one to rest well and prepare for tomorrow's meeting. I didn't see Guo Wei in the room, which surprised me a bit.

Secretary Liu seemed to see through my thoughts, greeted me with a smile, and went to pour a glass of water and handed it to me.

I sat down on the chair sideways and asked cautiously, "Secretary, do you have something for me?"

Secretary Liu glanced at me and flipped through the notebook in his hand. His notebook was densely filled with the content of today's meeting, and there were even a few red bars drawn in several places. Remembering that I was drowsy during the meeting, I couldn't help but feel ashamed. After all, he is a leader, and he does things in an orderly manner.

"During the break this morning, what did you and Mao Ping do?" Secretary Liu seemed to ask casually.

"We didn't do anything!" My face felt a bit hot. Two cadres, holding their "things" and peeing behind the Municipal Committee auditorium, how ridiculous could this scene be? My flat denial stemmed from human nature.

"Really didn't do anything?" Secretary Liu looked up at me with a smile, closing the notebook in his hand.

"Really didn't!" I started cursing Guo Wei in my heart. You villain, is such a thing worth reporting? At the same time, a trace of sadness surfaced—how should we get along in the future?

"Go, close the door." He commanded me. After I closed the door and came back, he was already sitting upright, indicating that a deep, long talk was about to unfold between us.

"Not being bound by small details is a good quality! But having no rules anywhere is not a matter of small details, but a reason for personal quality. Mao Ping is a township cadre, born in the countryside, and has deficiencies in cultural level and personal cultivation. But you, a college student from a big city, having received a good cultural education and ideological cultivation, also did such a thing, don't you feel ashamed?"

Secretary Liu spoke neither fast nor slow, but his tone was very severe, making me restless.

I blushed and didn't dare to argue anymore.

"You young cadres from the city have so many tricks." Secretary Liu sighed, his expression becoming melancholy.

This was hitting a whole boat of people! I am a person who cannot stand being wronged, so I immediately stated, "Secretary, it wasn't me."

"What wasn't you?" He stared at me and smiled ambiguously, "I don't think you're a fuel-efficient lamp either."

I scratched the back of my head, speechless. Since Secretary Liu called me here to lecture me, I had to find an opportunity to slip away.

Secretary Liu seemed to see through my thoughts and said indifferently, "Don't want to listen to me?"

I shook my head to deny it and said sincerely, "Secretary, being educated by you is something I can't ask for. How would I dare to have half such thoughts."

Secretary Liu pointed at me and laughed, "Kid, insincere, right? Look at yourself, it's as if there's a nail under your butt."

My heart trembled. Secretary Liu is a person who has spent his whole life in officialdom; whose little tricks can he not see? Anyone who can spend a lifetime in officialdom without falling has extraordinary abilities that ordinary people don't have. My little thoughts were just pediatrics in his eyes.

I smiled awkwardly and said, "That's not what I meant, Secretary. Before coming, Town Mayor Deng invited a few of us to drink in the Chinese restaurant. We just started drinking, and when I saw the time you specified had arrived, I threw them away and came here."

Secretary Liu laughed loudly and cursed, "You guys, can't you get enough from the buffet? You still want to go drinking, looking for death! Besides, you threw them away and ran here, aren't you afraid they'll curse you?"

I puffed out my chest and said, "If they curse me, I'll curse them back. But you, Secretary, looking for me is a huge matter, I must arrive on time."

Secretary Liu smiled calmly; he seemed very satisfied with my words. After a long while, he asked me, "Know about Little Guo's matter?"

I shook my head and smiled awkwardly, "What matter does Secretary Guo have?"

"You, saying you have no city government (schemes), your city government is deeper than the sea; saying you have city government, you are as transparent as a piece of white paper. Chen Feng, oh Chen Feng, you kid have been working with me for six years, and I really haven't seen through you." Secretary Liu sighed with a heavy heart.

I immediately leaned over and said, "Secretary, do you have any difficult matters? You order, as long as I can do it, I will definitely work hard to complete it, and I will be satisfied even if I have to go up to the mountain of knives and down to the sea of fire."

"Get out of here." Secretary Liu laughed and scolded, "You kid, if you don't add trouble to me, then pray to heaven, and you still think you can help me?"

After pondering for a while, he said seriously, "I really have a matter to talk to you about."

I shut my mouth and listened quietly. Secretary Liu talking to me in this form meant he didn't treat me as an outsider. Since I wasn't an outsider, I should be grateful and know when not to speak.

"Little Guo, um, that is your Suxi Town Secretary Guo Wei, his city government is too deep, he played a trick on me of a Cheng Yaojin coming out halfway." Secretary Liu sighed, "Originally, the Municipal Committee promised that the candidate for Deputy County Magistrate of Chunshan County would be decided by ourselves. Now it's not possible, Secretary Chen talked to me personally."

I said "Um" and didn't continue.

"This Guo Wei is formidable. He personally found Secretary Chen, I don't know what method he used, to make Secretary Chen make up his mind that the Deputy County Magistrate of Chunshan County must be him. I talked until my mouth was dry, but Secretary Chen just wouldn't agree, and almost slapped the table with me." Secretary Liu's expression seemed dazed, "For ten years, I have never seen Secretary Chen care so much about one thing."

Secretary Liu's words hit my heart like a dull hammer, and my brows knotted in pain.

Guo Wei, oh Guo Wei, you kid are playing "besieging Wei to save Zhao"! Chen Meng is pregnant, except for a few of us who know, Secretary Chen and his wife must still be kept in the dark. You know that Chen Meng won't agree to you, and she has already rejected you, you know you have no chance in front of her, but you used this trick to force Secretary Chen to submit.

Secretary Chen is an old cadre, and old cadres care about face. Guo Wei grasped this weakness; he could make the upright Secretary Chen submissive, he must have directly hit Secretary Chen's soft spot.

He must have personally found Secretary Chen and told him that Chen Meng was pregnant!

Chen Meng is an unmarried young woman, and there was no news of her dating before. Suddenly she is pregnant, which is even more unbearable than setting off a bomb. Moreover, Chen Meng is not the daughter of an ordinary family, the daughter of a Municipal Committee Secretary, unmarried and pregnant, if this matter spreads, what face would Secretary Chen have to stay on the political stage?

Guo Wei must have patted his chest and made a promise that he would be responsible for Chen Meng!

Of course, he would not miss the opportunity to express a wish, and this wish is: he wants to be the Deputy County Magistrate of Chunshan County.

Being pointed out by Secretary Liu, I suddenly understood, and the attitude of Chen Meng that I had been struggling with finally found an answer.

Chen Meng will not go against her father's opinion again. After all, her father is about to enter his twilight years. More importantly, her father is the number one person in this city. He lives in this world, not only with human life, but also with more spiritual things. Her father's words and deeds affect not just him alone, but the entire social atmosphere. If she goes against her father again, she is directly killing her father with a knife. Because her father will absolutely not let himself live in a society where people point fingers at him.

Everything seems to have come to light. I can't help but feel sad for Chen Meng's future. Marrying Guo Wei, will Chen Meng be happy?

This thought was verified as soon as I came out of Secretary Liu's room.

Guo Wei blocked me on the way back to my room, looking at me straight and smiling.

I returned the smile, while feeling like I had thorns on my back. I wanted to pass by him, but was grabbed by him.

"Don't invite me to your room to sit?" He asked with a smile, appearing very intimate.

"Don't dare!" I said, "Secretary Guo, we still have to have a meeting tomorrow, rest early and save energy for the meeting." I said something I didn't mean, calling him "Secretary Guo," I was subconsciously rejecting his identity as Deputy County Magistrate.

"It's still early." He said, lowering his voice, "I have two pieces of good news to tell you, do you want to hear them or not?"

"What good news?" I asked faintly, thinking in my heart, now except for the position of Deputy County Magistrate, I am not interested in any news.

"About Chen Meng, and about you." He said, seeing I wasn't enthusiastic, appearing a bit embarrassed, "Forget it if you don't want to hear."

After saying that, he turned to leave. Since it was about Chen Meng, I wanted to hear it. So I called him to stop and said, "It's good for us to chat. This winter, we haven't chatted a few times. The work in Suxi Town is still waiting for your instructions."

Guo Wei smiled and said, "Chen Feng, are you playing dumb or are you really dumb? Suxi Town's affairs, I won't be able to manage them from now on."

"I know!" I said, "You are the Deputy County Magistrate now."

Guo Wei smiled proudly, hooked my shoulder, and walked side by side to my room.

As soon as we entered the room, Guo Wei pushed me hard onto the bed, stared at me with a pair of murderous eyes and asked, "Chen Feng, tell me, is what you said today true?"

"What words?" I asked inexplicably. I was very disgusted by his rough behavior.

"Your cousin is coming back to the country?" He fell onto the bed dejectedly, hooking his head, looking worried.

"What does it have to do with you?" Seeing him like this, a sense of pity surged in my heart. After all, for the sake of his future, he was willing to sacrifice his love. Such a man, either great or despicable! I hope he belongs to the "great" category.

"What do you think?" He held his head, appearing incomparably painful, muttering, "I just let Chen Meng walk out of the pain. Do you want her to be in pain again?"

"What do you want me to do?" I was moved by his expression, and my heart was also twitching.

"Can you not tell Chen Meng about this?" He directly showed his bottom card.

"The problem is that as long as He Jiaxiao comes back, even if I don't tell her, she will know! He Jiaxiao is such a living person, and they both live in the Municipal Committee family compound, who can guarantee they won't meet?" I stated my concerns. Guo Wei, oh Guo Wei, it's not that I won't help you, but I can't help you!

"Don't worry, after this meeting is over, I will take Chen Meng to Qingdao for a vacation. We are prepared to go for a month and won't come back until after the New Year." Guo Wei looked at me pitifully, "You promise me."

"You are going to Qingdao? You are not familiar with the place, is it fun?" I said, absent-mindedly.

"You don't have to worry. I have a classmate who is now a Deputy Mayor of Qingdao, just promoted, I have already agreed with him. This time we go, not only for vacation, I also have the purpose of investment promotion."

"What a good thing!" I sighed, feeling uncomfortable in my heart. Guo Wei, you kid are holding a beautiful woman, going to live a fairy-like life, and throwing a Suxi Town that is at the end of its rope to me, where is your conscience!

"Also, I have reported to Secretary Chen, and also discussed with Secretary Liu, this time, I ask you to take over my hand and be the Suxi Town Secretary. This is a good thing, right?" He laughed, "We brothers should help each other move forward, don't you think?"

Before I could speak, I heard intense kicking at the door. Opening it, outside the door was Mao Ping, sweating profusely, half-hugging and half-carrying Deng Hanyu, who had turned into a puddle of mud. Behind them stood Xuelai, smiling brightly. ===== CHAPTER 323 =====