Chapter 87: Same trench

Our arrival made Pan Xiaoqin feel very surprised. She flew out like a little bird to welcome us.

The little girl had lost her past greenness and seemed much more mature and sophisticated, completely in the posture of a businesswoman. The only thing was that her tender face betrayed her youthful flying. Time changes people, and the environment creates people, which is not false at all. Pan Xiaoqin, a little girl from Gude Village, has now become a household name in Suxi Township and has also become the dream lover of young men in Suxi Township.

A person's success depends on her economic status and social value. Pan Xiaoqin's supermarket overturned the precedent of Suxi Township for hundreds of years. Her story spread in every family in Suxi Township. Many families took her as an example when educating their children. The power of example is infinite, and Pan Xiaoqin's power is even more infinite.

"Township Head Zhu, a distinguished guest." Pan Xiaoqin greeted us with a smile: "Yo, Secretary Chen is also here, what wind is blowing today?" She exaggeratedly pulled a hair from her head and twisted it in her hand to look at the wind direction.

Her actions made Zhu Shizhen laugh, and he blamed: "Little Boss Pan, what kind of ghost are you doing?"

She smiled shyly and said: "Township Head Zhu, don't make fun of me, what kind of boss am I? Just a person working for others. Your township company doesn't want me anymore, I have to find a bowl of rice to eat."

Zhu Shizhen smiled awkwardly and said: "Little Boss Pan, you can't say that. The township company is now responsible by the enterprise office. They have autonomous management rights, how can I do these things. If you don't believe me, ask Secretary Chen."

He shifted the contradiction to me, the old guy is really old and cunning.

The director of the enterprise office wants to treat guests, of course, he has the posture of a host, sitting down and calling Jinling to order a few dishes.

Jinling's figure remained the same, and her originally bright face looked rounder. Zhao Yu'er followed at her feet, and came to call me "Godfather" in a milky voice.

Zhu Shizhen heard Zhao Yu'er call me, laughed, bent down and picked up Yu'er, pinched his chubby face lightly and said: "Oh, the little guy is so cute, he is Secretary Chen's godson! When did it happen? You didn't call me to drink wedding wine."

Jinling reprimanded her son and said: "Yu'er, don't come down yet! Look, you made Grandpa Zhu's clothes dirty." She took the child from Zhu Shizhen's hand and asked us: "What do you want to eat?"

The director of the enterprise office said: "Whatever you have, bring it."

Jinling smiled and said: "We have more things, yellow eels, rabbits, pheasants, and a little stone frog. The stone frog at this time is more expensive than shark fin and bird's nest. Director, you say, should we serve everything?"

"Forget about the stone frog, what season is it, can you still eat it? You are also bold, aren't you afraid of eating people to death?" The director of the enterprise office said: "Except for the stone frog, bring a plate of everything, the key is what good wine you have here."

"There are more varieties of wine, expensive and cheap, Director, you go to the supermarket to see and take it yourself." Jinling held Yu'er and went to the back kitchen. Pan Xiaoqin shouted from behind: "Sister-in-law, ask Brother Shurong to add more dried chili."

I said: "It won't work if it's too spicy, it will get angry."

Pan Xiaoqin smiled ambiguously and said: "Don't worry, the weather is cold, besides, you won't get angry now."

I can naturally hear the subtext of her words, and scolded in my heart, dead girl, you are a yellow-flower girl, what do you know.

I said: "Pan Xiaoqin, go do your own business. I have something to talk to Township Head Zhu."

She glanced at me and said: "You talk yours, I won't listen. Township Head Zhu came to my shop to support me for the first time, I will accompany him, what does it have to do with you?"

Zhu Shizhen looked around and said: "Little Boss Pan, you have a future. Since you have this supermarket, there are many more people in the township government every day. This place of yours is a place to gather popularity. Where there is popularity, there is wealth. If you make a fortune, you must make more contributions. Suxi Township lacks young people like you. If the young people in Suxi Township are all like you, why worry that our Suxi Township will not be rich."

Pan Xiaoqin smiled and said: "Township Head Zhu, if you want to help me, just approve a piece of land for me, I want to expand my business. Look at us now, this small shed, it's hot in summer and cold in winter, people come to eat, it's suffering."

Zhu Shizhen laughed and said: "Little Boss Pan, it's not that I don't approve it for you, the township government only has so much land. In the future, when the road is connected, there won't be enough parking space, I'm still worried."

The director of the enterprise office came in with two bottles of dizzy big liquor, smiled and said: "This wine is still good, I looked at it, the degree of other wines is low, not good to drink."

Pan Xiaoqin was busy pouring wine for us. Just after pouring the wine, Jinling brought a basin of braised wild rabbit meat, and the fragrance filled the small shed.

After Pan Xiaoqin poured the wine, she said apologetically: "Township Head Zhu, Director, Secretary Chen, you eat slowly, I won't disturb you."

After saying that, she didn't wait for us to keep her, and went out on her own.

Zhu Shizhen sighed and said: "Little Boss Pan, it will be extraordinary in the future."

The three of them raised their glasses and drank it all in one gulp.

I was waiting for Zhu Shizhen to tell me something important, so after the first cup, I immediately filled it for him. Zhu Shizhen held the wine glass and said: "Secretary Chen, we have been working together for three years, right?"

I said: "More than three years."

"Oh," he pondered and said: "My impression of you is very good, young and promising, able to endure hardship. It is not easy for a young man like you to stay in our Suxi Township for more than three years. Admire!" He gave me a thumbs up.

I smiled modestly and said: "It's all thanks to your care, leader."

He patted me on the shoulder, raised his wine glass and said: "Come, let's have another cup, to congratulate you on your promotion in the future."

I looked at him inexplicably, he laughed and said: "You say, how is my old Zhu to you?"

I said exaggeratedly: "Very good. Without your support, what kind of future can I have?"

"Which is good," he turned to the director of the enterprise office and said: "Come, Old Mo, let's toast Secretary Chen, especially you, you should thank Secretary Chen, without him, your enterprise office, raising seven or eight people, without an enterprise, it is shameful to say it."

The director of the enterprise office blushed, smiled and muttered: "Thank you, thank you."

"In the future, we are all comrades in the same trench, working together to build the economic construction of Suxi Township, and letting the common people be rich is the original intention of us township cadres."

Zhu Shizhen's words made me almost unable to see his true face. When did we become comrades in the same trench? I am a small township secretary without relatives and friends, not much better than an ant, anyone can crush me to death, and he is willing to be a comrade with me, which is really beyond my expectations.

"I don't mean anything else. Look, what Suxi Township looked like before liberation, and what it looks like now. Although the government has thought of many ways, it is helpless that our place is high in mountains and dense in forests, traffic is inconvenient, and even birds are unwilling to pull shit. Since you came, we have seen that the road is about to be connected, and the electricity is about to be lit. These things, although the township party committee and government are leading, if you don't input some new things, I think there is no change. So, your achievements are invisible achievements."

He took a notice out of his pocket and handed it to me: "Look, good thing."

The notice was issued by the county party committee, and my name was on it.

The content of the notice is to go to the county party school for further study.

My head was dizzy. The opportunity to study at the party school finally came. The notice I had been waiting for for two years, although it was not the municipal party school, I still couldn't suppress the ecstasy in my heart. You know, the result of my study must be promotion!

"You are now a probationary party member, waiting for the oath on July 1st next year to become an official member of the organization. Why do I want to be your party introduction person? Because the trainees of this training session must be party members, do you understand now."

I was so moved that I almost shed tears. Township Head Zhu Shizhen seems to be a good person. Without him, I might have lost another opportunity.

I raised my wine glass and said with infinite sincerity: "Thank you for your care and love, Township Head Zhu, I will drink this cup first."

After a bottle of wine, all three of them started to be slurred. The dizzy big liquor went to the head, and it hurt as if it were splitting. My heart was topped by joy, I opened the second bottle and filled a whole cup for myself.

"Your study time this time is long, three months. I originally studied at the party school for seven days," Zhu Shizhen said with a hiccup: "Brother, the more important the study, the longer the time."

I certainly know, I pretended not to understand and said: "Township Head Zhu, what do you learn in this study?"

He narrowed his eyes, put one hand on the table, and said earnestly: "The way of governing people."

It was dark outside, and a group of people poured in from outside, including those who repaired roads and erected lines, and those who installed equipment at the substation. A group of people saw us and greeted us happily. They sat around the other two tables, shouting for wine and food. ===== CHAPTER 88 =====