Chapter 575: Come with Me to Yongning City

Gan Lu was very happy to receive my call, and when she heard that I was going to her house now, she hesitated for a long time before agreeing to me hesitantly.

I had been to her house once, so I was familiar with the road.

After drinking a cup of tea, I asked her straight to the point what else was there to eat at home.

Gan Lu spread her hands and said, "Go to the refrigerator and see for yourself what's left."

I drank with Duanmu on an empty stomach, and drinking on an empty stomach is easy to get drunk. I didn't seem to be drunk, I could still drive, and I could find Gan Lu's house smoothly. I couldn't help but admire myself, and felt especially relaxed when walking.

Opening the refrigerator door, my heart skipped a beat, and a chill hit me instantly.

The refrigerator was empty, except for an apple and a bottle of yogurt, not even a hair was left.

Seeing me standing at the refrigerator door for a long time without moving, Gan Lu pursed her lips and smiled, "I'm leaving tomorrow. The city has already sent someone to pick me up, and I'm staying at the Provincial Party Committee Guesthouse. I won't be back for three or five days, and there's no one at home, so I cleared it out."

I sighed, "Forget it, I'll just be hungry."

Gan Lu frowned and thought, "How about I go out and buy something for you to eat?"

I waved my hand and refused, "No, how can I let you go out alone."

Gan Lu said in surprise, "If I don't go out to buy, are you going to be hungry for a night?"

"It's okay," I said easily, "When I was in the township government, I often didn't eat."

I didn't lie to her. When I was in Suxi Township, sometimes I missed the meal time, and Old Wang in the cafeteria packed up and went home, so I could only be hungry. Sometimes guests suddenly came and took my share, and Old Wang, the old thing, wouldn't cook more, so I could only be hungry.

When I was really hungry, I would take a flashlight to Secretary Liu Quan's house. When I accompanied the secretary to chat, Liu Hongyan would always ask me if I had eaten? At this time, I generally didn't speak, just smiled.

At this time, Liu Hongyan would go to the kitchen and make me a bowl of poached egg noodles.

I rarely went to Secretary Liu Quan's house on nights when I had eaten. I would generally read Tang poetry and Song lyrics under the dim oil lamp, and sometimes read some wild history. After staying for a long time, I even had a special intimacy and sense of security with the oil lamp, but instead felt tired and terrified of the brightly lit city.

Of course, I still prepared some noodles and the like. But I really didn't want to cook noodles in clear soup and water on a kerosene stove. I would rather be hungry, anyway, when a person falls asleep, they won't be hungry.

Such a scene was completely changed after meeting Xue Bing.

Xue Bing's school had a cafeteria, and the food their teachers ate was small stove. After eating once, I couldn't forget it, and praised the oil and water of her school cafeteria.

Xue Bing kept it in mind from then on. As long as I missed the meal time, she would definitely bring me the food from her cafeteria. At first, I was surprised by her divine calculation, why did she appear every time I was hungry, just like Guanyin Bodhisattva, saving me from bitterness and difficulty.

I solved this mystery a long time later. Xue Bing's school was only a ridge away from the township government. She knew the situation of the township government every day like the back of her hand. For example, when I went to the countryside, when I went to the county, she knew very clearly.

She also knew that as long as I missed the meal time, I would be hungry, so as long as I went to the countryside, she would definitely leave a portion of food at dinner.

With Xue Bing, I rarely ate Liu Hongyan's poached egg noodles. But with her, I would never be hungry and lie in bed waiting for dawn again.

Gan Lu glanced at me, opened the door and went out, came back after a while, holding a bag in her hand, and went straight to the kitchen.

I knew the apple and yogurt in the refrigerator were Gan Lu's breakfast tomorrow morning, so I didn't touch them, and didn't care what Gan Lu was doing in the kitchen, lying on the sofa with my limbs spread out and spitting out rough air.

I learned this method of sobering up from a friend. That is, swallow air in big mouthfuls, then spit it out in big mouthfuls, which will spit out all the alcohol in the stomach, several times better than drinking sobering tea.

As soon as I lay down, and only spat a few mouthfuls, my head felt dizzy, everything was spinning, and I felt stuffy and nauseous to death.

I hurriedly climbed up, rushed into the bathroom, and vomited in a mess.

This burst of vomiting almost vomited out my bile.

By the time all the residual alcohol and water in my stomach were vomited out, the floor was a mess, and I felt nauseous looking at it myself. I rinsed my mouth, and then carefully washed away all the messy things.

With nothing in my stomach, hunger followed.

Looking at a beauty on an empty stomach is the world's number one SB. I secretly blamed myself, preparing to go out to find something to eat.

Opening the door, I saw Gan Lu standing at the door with her hands twisted together. I felt empty in my heart, turned back to look at the bathroom floor, and until I found it was spotless, I turned my head and smiled hypocritically.

"Vomited?" she asked me, looking very concerned. This made me feel a little relieved.

Most women have mysophobia, especially for men's vomit after drinking, let alone women, even dogs dislike it.

"Eat something." She turned and walked to the dining room.

I followed her and thought secretly, there's not even a hair at home, what can she conjure up for me to eat?

Arriving at the dining room, I saw a bowl of steaming noodles on the table, with a poached egg lying on top of the noodles, and my eyes were instantly wet.

This bowl of poached egg noodles in front of me was exactly the same as the one Liu Hongyan made back then, and even the shape of the white egg was exactly the same as back then.

Seeing me stunned, Gan Lu smiled, "People can't not eat. I just went to the neighbor's house to borrow noodles and eggs, so you can just make do with it."

She seemed a bit shy, clearly lacking confidence in her cooking skills.

What moved me was that she rarely interacted with neighbors, and for a woman as reserved and aloof as her, how much courage would it take to knock on the neighbor's door.

Her house was a detached small villa, and going to the neighbor's house required passing through a dark path. How much courage would it take for her, who was afraid of the dark!

I sat down, picked up the chopsticks and ate. As soon as the noodles entered my mouth, I almost vomited.

This bowl of noodles was unusually salty, as if it had been soaked in salt water, and it was impossible to enter the mouth, let alone swallow.

Gan Lu looked at me with full expectation, waiting for my evaluation.

I swallowed the noodles in one gulp without changing my expression, smacked my lips and said, "Delicious."

A smile appeared on Gan Lu's originally nervous face, and she asked me happily, "Really?"

I said seriously, "Really delicious. Really fragrant!"

I fully understood that Gan Lu couldn't cook; she had eaten in the cafeteria all her life. In recent years, she simply set her meals in the hotel. She rarely turned on the fire to cook at home, which I saw clues of the first time I came.

The kitchen utensils in Gan Lu's house were basically new, and some tableware hadn't even been moved.

"Eat slowly, don't choke." She smiled and said, "I'll pour you a glass of water."

As soon as Gan Lu turned around, I swallowed the noodles in three or two bites. I didn't dare to use my tongue to touch the taste of the noodles, and didn't dare to look for the pleasure of food in my mouth.

I couldn't eat in front of her, I was afraid of revealing the secret and making her suspicious.

Gan Lu brought the water over and saw the bowl was empty, and asked in surprise, "Ate so fast?"

I patted my stomach and said, "Because I was too hungry."

As I said this, I took the water glass from her hand, first held a mouthful of water, let the cool water wander in my mouth, and then swallowed it slowly.

Thanks to this timely water, my already numb taste buds had a touch.

After drinking three glasses of water in a row, I burped and said, "Mayor Gan, where do I sleep?"

Gan Lu asked in surprise, "You want to stay at my house?"

I nodded and said, "Save money."

She clearly became a bit anxious, waving her hands and saying, "No, no. How can you stay at my house? A man and a woman alone, it will have a bad influence if it gets out."

I said shamelessly, "If you don't say it and I don't say it, heaven knows."

Gan Lu said firmly, "I can give you money if you don't have it, but you can't stay at my house."

I played a rogue, "I don't eat people, why do you want to drive me away."

Gan Lu's face turned red, and she said bashfully, "I know you don't eat people, but I eat people."

"You eat people?" I opened my eyes wide and didn't believe it, "Show me you eating a person."

Gan Lu waved her hand and said, "Stop making trouble. I don't want you to stay because I hope you can understand, the person coming to pick me up will arrive early tomorrow morning, if they see you at my house, how do you want me to explain?"

"Must explain?"

"What do you think?"

"Simple!" I smiled, "Just say I'm your monitor."

Gan Lu paused and said, "Monitor? Can a monitor stay at a classmate's house? And it's a single female classmate, it doesn't make sense, right?"

I was annoyed by her, stood up and said, "Forget it, I'll go sleep on the street."

Seeing I was about to leave, Gan Lu dragged me again and said, "Are you angry with me?"

I said with infinite annoyance, "No, don't dare."

Gan Lu comforted me softly, "How about I send you to a hotel? I'll accompany you to talk for a while and then come back, okay?"

I wanted to laugh, but didn't dare to laugh out loud. This woman who had already become Deputy Mayor was still like a little woman in front of me. I even doubted how she would conquer her subordinates after taking office.

"No need." I refused her, "Let's just chat here, I'll leave in a while."

Gan Lu seemed a bit disappointed, but she still sat down obediently, raised a clear face and asked me, "What shall we chat about?"

I smiled, "Chat about life, chat about life, anything is fine."

She laughed, "We are both adults, still chatting about children's topics."

I said seriously, "Life has no size, life only has quality."

She calmed down, smiled faintly and said, "Chat!"

I actually didn't want to chat about life at all, and didn't want to chat about life even more. Life is a dog's fart, coming naked, leaving naked. In a few short decades, it is full of deceit, full of violence and hypocrisy.

As for life, there is nothing to chat about. Life is also a dog's fart, people in the world, no one can truly understand life.

"You are already a mayor, and I am nothing." I sighed, finally finding a topic.

"You haven't been arranged yet?" She seemed a bit surprised, her expression looking a bit anxious.

I shook my head and said, "I don't know what's going on."

"Didn't they say you were transferred to the Provincial Public Security Department?"

"Who said that?"

"Small road news." She covered up her panicked expression and said, "I heard it too."

"Who did you hear it from?"

She hesitated for a long time before stammering, "Meng Xiaoyu."

I said "oh" and said, "I heard he is still in the Provincial Party Committee Office, but is going to be promoted to Deputy Secretary-General?"

"Should be. Already in the public announcement."

I became annoyed, watching all the students in the class promoted, while I, as the monitor, was left on the side alone. Duanmu and Xu Mengda said it was because of my father-in-law Huang Shan, which could only fool three-year-old children. Although I am not an old river and lake, I can be counted as half an old oil stick in the officialdom.

Minister Huang Qishan fundamentally lacks the power to shake up personnel appointments made by the Provincial Party Committee. Although he is a feudal lord in his own right, he cannot risk interfering with the work of his superiors.

Then, besides this factor, the only reason for leaving me is that the Provincial Party Committee doesn't intend to promote me!

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but feel sad.

Seeing my lonely look, Gan Lu walked to my side and sat down, comforting me softly, "If you are willing, come with me to Yongning City!" ===== CHAPTER 576 =====