Chapter 557: Your dad is really awesome
From Xu Mengda's mouth, I learned about his love for Xue Bing. Xue Bing had already gone abroad a month ago, and Peng Xiaoyuan had accompanied her to study abroad. No wonder I hadn't seen her shadow in the few days I returned to the Party School.
I said goodbye to Xu Mengda and wanted to leave, but he didn't keep me, smiling and waving at me.
Old man Xu Da personally sent me off, making me feel that my footsteps were empty, as if I couldn't step on solid ground.
"Little Chen, come see Mengda when you have time, he needs you." The old man urged me, his words sincere and his manner gentle. But I could hear a trace of bitterness in his words.
I quickly nodded and agreed, firmly not letting him send me off.
Old man Xu Da stood still and said to me with a smile, "You go, I'll watch you go."
I turned and walked away, walking faster and faster. I didn't want a pair of eyes behind me staring at me; those eyes contained deep fatherly love.
After getting in the car, I cried loudly. To cover up the sound of crying, I turned on the stereo and let the maximum volume cover up my increasingly desolate mood.
After crying, I felt a sense of relief all over.
The half-year Party School training was about to end. In this half year, I had broadened my horizons. Not only did I meet dozens of classmates, but through them, I also met many high-ranking officials.
Counting them, I was the one with the least background among this group. Among the thirty classmates in the class, except for me, everyone had more or less connections in the province. Unlike me, once I walked out of the Party School door, I was blind.
Actually, I could also find a backer, such as Vice Provincial Governor Lin. We had met a few times, and he had once said in front of me that he hoped I could be his son-in-law. I didn't go to him because I couldn't become his son-in-law.
Deng Hanyuan had been busy paying respects everywhere during this time. As long as he knew a name, he would definitely go to the door to exchange a few pleasantries. As for the connection his dad found for him, he was even more attentive. As long as there was no class, he would definitely rush to someone's house at the first opportunity, pouring tea and water, doing all kinds of work.
Deng Hanyuan once told me not to look at being a cow or a horse now; when the clouds open and the sun rises, I would immediately become a master.
I had always supported Deng Hanyuan's statement, and even when he was slightly tired, I immediately cheered him on. Sometimes I even drove him there and had to watch him enter someone's hallway before leaving.
I didn't take Deng Hanyuan's backer seriously at all. He was just a division-level cadre in a certain department. In the provincial capital where a brick could kill ten people, eight and a half were division chiefs, his ability would almost not help Deng Hanyuan's future direction at all. Of course, I wouldn't tell him these words. I couldn't hurt his self-confidence and hope.
For half a year, I basically lived with my tail between my legs, cautious and fearful.
In a few months, I saw a fact clearly: among these thirty people, only one was my opponent. He was Meng Xiaoyu.
Meng Xiaoyu had always maintained a solitary personality. If there was a class, he would definitely be the first to arrive at school, wouldn't greet anyone he saw, and would sit in the classroom alone reading books.
After class, he was the first to leave the Party School, still without greeting anyone.
To connect everyone's feelings, I held several gatherings and specifically invited Meng Xiaoyu to participate. Every time, he politely declined me, giving me no chance to see where his flaws were.
Gan Lu had revealed some things to me about Meng Xiaoyu.
It turned out that this guy was indeed different from us mortals. It was said that he had connections in the capital, and the connections were unusual. He looked down on us, and he was qualified to do so. Even Duanmu and Mei Hua, he seemed to have an indifferent attitude. Even so, Duanmu and Mei Hua had never said a word about him, letting him go his own way.
Before disbanding, I did one thing, which was to make the contact information of all the classmates into a small booklet. I planned to give one to each person when the graduation was officially announced.
I knew they would all be happy to accept this small booklet. After all, the thirty people in the booklet would be the pillars of Central Province in the future.
Thirty people, after the New Year, would all be colleagues.
The streets were crowded with people, and the provincial capital of Central Province, with its bright lights, was colorful everywhere.
It was indeed the provincial capital! Atmospheric!
I sighed and thought of my Hengyue City. Hengyue City could be considered a medium-sized city, and it was very famous in history first. When other places were still wilderness, it had already built counties and prefectures. With convenient water and land transportation and a gathering of merchants, it was a city that was a must-contend for soldiers, a must-guard for merchants, and suitable for people to live in.
But in this city of thousands of years, only one or two streets were lively at night, showing the past prosperity of this city.
The car passed the bridge, and after driving a few more miles, it reached the Party School.
There were not many cars on the road to the Party School, and the houses on both sides of the road flashed with sporadic lights. Occasionally, a few dog barks showed that this place was different from the hustle and bustle of the city, and it still carried some pastoral scenery, hidden with a trace of tranquility.
I parked the car on the side of the road and took out my tool to take a pee.
The night wind blew, cold and bone-chilling.
I took out a cigarette, lit it, and leaned against the car body, quietly admiring the lights in the distance.
The city had been left behind by me, and under the orange light in the night sky in the distance, the city was boiling.
Another gust of wind rolled over, rolling the fallen leaves on the ground and drifting everywhere. A grain of rice-like thing fell into my neck, and before I could turn back, there was a rustling sound in the night sky, and then a burst of snow particles fell in the air.
I stretched out my palm, wanting to catch a few. After catching for a long time, there was not half a grain in my palm, but my car body was hit with a rustling sound, and in the gap of the wiper, a layer of white piled up in the blink of an eye.
It's snowing! I called out softly, and my heart suddenly became incomparably cheerful.
I sat in the car and took out my phone to call Huang Weiwei.
"Wife, it's snowing here." My voice had a tail tremor. This was an excited voice.
"Is that so?" Huang Weiwei asked lazily on the phone: "Husband, when are you coming back?"
"Not tomorrow, I will definitely be home the day after tomorrow." I calculated the days and said: "We will graduate tomorrow. As soon as we graduate, I will rush back immediately."
Huang Weiwei laughed softly and said: "I'll see which one of you father and son will reach my side first."
I asked in surprise: "Wife, are you about to give birth?"
Huang Weiwei said word by word to the microphone: "I came to the hospital this morning, what do you think?"
As soon as I heard this, I became anxious.
Huang Weiwei was about to give birth, and she didn't tell me. Was she afraid of distracting me, or did she want to give me a surprise? As a father, who wouldn't want to welcome a child into this world?
"Wife, I will definitely rush back tomorrow." I said, preparing to hang up the phone.
"You don't need to rush back yet." Huang Weiwei said earnestly: "Before you come back, you must first visit someone."
"Who?" I asked in surprise. I had been training in the province for half a year, and I had never heard her say that their family had relatives or friends in the province.
Of course, Minister Huang Shan must have people in the province, otherwise he couldn't be the Organization Minister of Hengyue City. But he had never taken the initiative to tell me about anyone, and Huang Weiwei hadn't said anything either. Now that she suddenly wanted me to visit someone, to be honest, I was a thousand times unwilling in my heart.
Huang Weiwei clearly felt that my tone was not good, she pondered for a while and said: "I was betting today, if you called back, I would tell you this. If you didn't call back, I would rot this matter in my heart."
She giggled, with a trace of schadenfreude in her voice: "This is your fate! Husband, you called back, so you must visit him."
I asked impatiently: "Who is it?"
Huang Weiwei didn't tell me, but said it was her dad's idea, specifically urging her to make sure I visited.
I naturally understood my father-in-law's intention; the person he asked me to visit was definitely not a simple person. But he only asked me to visit now, and the day lily was already cold.
"Husband, you must go." Huang Weiwei said earnestly: "My dad said, you just go."
I promised her and said: "Okay, okay, okay, wife, I'll go. You tell me, who am I going to visit?"
"Vice Provincial Governor Lin." She said on the phone: "You knew each other before."
"No!" I said flatly: "I'm not going."
"Why?"
"I've been training in the province for half a year, and I haven't been there once. Now that I'm going again, what should I say?"
"You don't need to say anything. You'll know when you go." Huang Weiwei threatened me: "If you dare not to go, I won't let you enter the house when you come back."
I almost wailed: "Wife! Your dad is really awesome!"
After hanging up her phone, I calculated how to open my mouth to visit Vice Provincial Governor Lin tomorrow, until the car reached the gate of the Party School, and I was almost startled when I hit the steel gate. ===== CHAPTER 558 =====
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