Chapter 96: You Are My Big Treasure

The Party School study finally ended. Guo Wei presided over the meeting, first expressing a warm welcome for my return from study, saying that Party cadres, only after studying at the Party School, can better implement the Party's instructions and spirit, and can become cadres capable of leading a government.

Guo Wei's words made the cadres below sit on pins and needles. Most of the cadres had not studied at the Party School. According to his words, cadres who had not studied at the Party School were not qualified cadres?

Zhu Shizhen clearly did not accept Guo Wei's statement and kept snorting through his nose. Guo Wei pretended not to hear. Zhu Shizhen had never entered the door of the Party School from the time he entered the Suxi Township Government as an office clerk, to deputy township head, then to township people's congress chairman, and then back to the position of township head. Especially now, the two glaring words "acting" written on his hat made him feel inferior everywhere. He even regretted why he had accepted this acting hat in the first place; it would have been better to wear the hard hat of chairman easily, walking and talking with confidence, and his back would have been much straighter.

Before Guo Wei came, Zhu Shizhen was the one who called the shots in Suxi Township. When township cadres met him on the road, they would respectfully yield and greet him. Now it was good; once Guo Wei came, these cadres seemed to have no existence of Zhu Shizhen in their eyes. They no longer yielded when meeting on the road, and even worse, they were too lazy to even say hello.

This made Zhu Shizhen, who was accustomed to receiving flattery, feel an inexplicable sense of loss.

Especially at every meeting, Guo Wei didn't even give him a chance to speak, and even the act of asking for his opinion didn't exist at all. He always spoke by himself, and once he spoke, he executed it, neither discussing nor shirking. It was as if he, the township head, didn't exist at all. Zhu Shizhen couldn't accept this status quo, so he found an opportunity to go to Guo Wei's office, circled around in a big circle, and finally meant that Guo Wei should respect people.

Guo Wei didn't care about Zhu Shizhen's small-mindedness at all. He laughed heartily and said, "Township Head Zhu, government cadres need to go through the people's congress election process. Without going through the people's congress, it's just temporary acting. An acting person can't take any responsibility. Suxi Township has over four thousand people; there must be a responsible person to do the work. I, Guo Wei, understand your mood. I'm doing this for your own good. After the New Year, when the people's congress meets to elect and formally clarify you, Suxi Township will still have a lot of work that needs old cadres like you to do."

Guo Wei's words made Zhu Shizhen feel awkward. Government cadres need to go through the people's congress, so you, the secretary, don't need the people's congress? We are all Party cadres, why do we still have to distinguish between each other?

After probing the bottom, both sides understood the meaning. Guo Wei still went his own way and still didn't give Zhu Shizhen the right to express his opinion.

The second topic was the relocation of the township middle school.

The township middle school was built in the 1960s, a red brick and wooden building with a history of over thirty years. Moreover, the predecessor of the township middle school was the ancestral hall of the Hu clan, located among the crisscrossing paddy fields. What connected it to the outside world were a few winding field paths, like a frog lurking in the hills and fields. According to current policies, the ancestral hall of the clan should be returned. Although the era is long gone, the traces of history are still there. The rows of graves on the mountain behind the middle school show a historical pattern that modern civilization cannot change.

The township middle school needs to relocate, to a place with convenient transportation, green mountains, and dense forests. And this relocation must meet the needs of modern education development. Whether Suxi Township can change its face requires the joint efforts of generations. Change requires knowledge, so education is the top priority of Suxi Township.

Relocation is no small matter! First, it needs money, and second, it needs land.

No one expressed an opinion, responding to Guo Wei's proposal with warm applause. Everyone was watching; the new secretary was ambitious and talked lightly about the relocation of the middle school. Let's see how he plays this trick.

Guo Wei was heroic, took out a drawing board, and on it was a rendering of the new campus, which was indeed beautiful and atmospheric.

He pointed to the rendering and said, "In the next few decades, the children of Suxi Township will grow up and live in this beautiful campus."

After the meeting, Guo Wei invited me to eat in the canteen together. I declined his kindness; I wanted to go to the middle school to see Xue Bing, my lover.

He allowed it generously, his eyes smiling into a crescent moon, and said, "Brother Chen, not bad, you've won the beauty."

Xue Bing had no class in the afternoon and was lying in the quilt reading a book alone. Seeing me come, she jumped off the quilt and hung on my neck, spinning around happily.

I hugged her back and said, "Missed me, baby?"

She blushed and buried her head in my chest, asking me back, "Did you miss me?"

"Missed, of course missed, missed you to death," I said, picking her up and putting her into the quilt.

She held my hand and refused to let go, closing her eyes slightly and saying, "Feng, kiss me."

I lowered my head and held her petal-like lips.

"You lie in too, it's cold outside," she looked at me lovingly, turned her body, and made a space for me.

I took off my thick clothes in a flurry and drilled in like a loach.

I said, "Wife, thank you for the sweater you knitted for me. Without it, I might have frozen to death at the Party School."

She smiled shyly and said, "So exaggerated, originally without my sweater, it didn't seem like you would freeze to death."

I scraped her small nose and said, "Originally was originally, originally didn't you not have me yet?"

She sighed and said, "To be honest, I really didn't think about knitting you a sweater at first. I saw my sister knitting a scarf, and then I remembered. You won't blame me, will you?"

I said sourly on purpose, "Others are more concerned about your husband."

She punched me lightly in the chest and said, "My sister cares about you, is that wrong?"

I hurriedly said, "No, no. Wife, you don't eat vinegar either?"

"Why would I eat my sister's vinegar? No matter what, you, Chen Feng, are my husband. No matter what others are, they are outsiders."

I kissed her on the face happily and said, "Wife, how can I not love you!"

She giggled.

Xue Bing, the woman I am willing to protect with my life, was leaning on me like a baby at this moment.

The shadow of Jin Ling floated in my mind, followed by Yue Bai, and then Meizhu and Xiaoqin appeared alternately.

My heart was filled with sorrow. What do I have to love you with?

Jin Ling's temptation, Yue Bai's hotness, Meizhu's shyness, Xiaoqin's cuteness. Also Hongyan's depression, Weiwei's reserve. And the first woman in my life, Wu Qian, as well as my aunt who has walked with me for twenty-six years. They are all irreplaceable people in my heart, but I cannot bring them a trace of warmth and protection.

Living, the hardest thing is to choose!

Xue Bing woke up and looked at me quietly with her fluttering eyes.

"Feng, what are you thinking about?"

She asked me, leaning her head on my chest.

I hugged her waist and said, "Nothing, wife. You sleep a little more."

"I won't sleep anymore. With you here, I can't sleep."

I kissed her on the forehead and said, "Wife, let's get married."

She hugged my head and said lovingly, "Feng, I want to give you a son."

I raised my head and said, "Let's have a daughter. I want a daughter, a daughter as beautiful as you."

"I won't," she said stubbornly, "I just want to give birth to a son."

"How about we have two, one daughter, one son," I said with a smile, "a son and a daughter, both complete."

She said seriously, "As long as you dare to have them, I'm not afraid."

Suddenly I remembered that the national policy didn't allow it. If we have two, the only result is being fired from both. If we are fired from both, what will we eat?

I smiled apologetically and said, "Wife, regardless of boy or girl, let's have them first. They are all our treasures."

She stared into my eyes and said, "What about me?"

I smoothed her hair and said softly, "You are my big treasure." ===== CHAPTER 97 =====