Chapter 1561: The First Lesson

"Welcome, Comrade Li Xuewu."

The deputy director of the office accompanied him to the organization department office, where a vice president in charge of teaching met him. This was also Li Xuewu's first time seeing the other party.

"Hello, we should be..."

Li Xuewu frowned slightly and asked tentatively while shaking hands.

The other party didn't mind, smiled, nodded, and said, "Just like you, I'm also a newcomer."

Clearly, his so-called 'newcomer' didn't just refer to being new to the place. Li Xuewu already understood.

"Then that's truly fate." Li Xuewu smiled and introduced himself, "Li Xuewu, a newcomer even newer than you, reporting for duty just today."

"Qiu Tingsong, a month earlier than you."

Vice President Qiu wasn't young, but his mindset was good, at least not that of an old pedant or an old stubborn person.

He raised his hand to signal the wooden armchair for Li Xuewu to sit down and asked casually, "Tea?"

"Thank you, no need to be polite."

Li Xuewu also waved his hand quite relaxedly and said, "I already drank some when I came."

"I like drinking tea, can't live without it."

Vice President Qiu smiled, stood by the tea cabinet, and made a cup for himself, "I'll give you plain water."

He didn't force it excessively, but didn't want to lose etiquette, so he retreated to the next best thing and chose plain water.

Li Xuewu didn't mind either, spread his hands, didn't answer, and kept his gaze on the other party.

"Regarding the invitation for you to serve as an associate professor at the Political and Legal College, I also heard about it after I came."

He walked back with two teacups, gave the plain water to Li Xuewu, and kept the tea for himself.

"I was very surprised, regarding your age, so I pulled your file from the personnel department."

After sitting down, he nodded with a very colorful expression, looked at Li Xuewu, and said, "I have to say, my vision was truly too short-sighted."

Li Xuewu still didn't speak, but in response to what could be called his praise, his eyebrows moved, which counted as a response.

Vice President Qiu seemed to have conducted a detailed investigation of him and looked like he knew him very well.

After putting down the teacup, he crossed his right leg, curled his lips, and spread his hands, saying, "I don't even know what I should talk to you about. Criminal Psychology?"

"Thank you, I'm also quite confused myself."

Li Xuewu finally opened his mouth, smiled shallowly, looked at the other party, and said, "Up to now, I don't even know how to give the first lesson."

"Life always has countless firsts."

Vice President Qiu smiled, looked at him, raised his eyebrows, and asked back, "Isn't that so?"

"Maybe, go with the flow?"

Li Xuewu shook his head bitterly and said, "Even the lesson plan for the preparation was something I temporarily asked my eldest brother and sister-in-law about. They said I'm a fake professor."

"A young scholar from Huaqing, right."

Vice President Qiu stated Li Xuewu's family background relationship quite frankly; this was his right.

At least Li Xuewu didn't care.

"I've read your book." His attitude became serious, he nodded, and said, "I have to say, your viewpoints and experience have filled the gaps in this discipline."

"I heard you have other books published." Vice President Qiu looked at him and said, "I believe you can complete this task."

"Complete it as an arduous task?"

Li Xuewu's answer couldn't be called an answer, but it could be seen that he was truly confused about this job.

"Believe me, regarding such an arrangement, my confusion is no less than yours." Vice President Qiu said helplessly, "But the order is just like that."

"Of course, I've already learned that."

Li Xuewu nodded quite frankly and said, "Then do you have anything else to instruct?"

"I'm very sorry, I'm powerless."

Vice President Qiu said bitterly, "I've only read it once. How about I read it a few more times, or wait for the trainees' feedback before talking?"

"You are the leader." Li Xuewu gave a faint smile, raised his finger to point at him, then stood up and said, "Thank you for your hospitality today."

"Please don't say that; I'm already embarrassed enough." Vice President Qiu stood up, shook hands with him, and emphasized seriously, "Since you pioneered this discipline, please strive to make it an indispensable part of the Political and Legal College."

"At the very least, leave your name behind."

He shook Li Xuewu's hand, then gave a faint smile and said, "I wish you all the best in your teaching work at the Political and Legal College, Comrade Li Xuewu."

"Thank you for your blessings, definitely."

Li Xuewu released his right hand, turned around cleanly, and walked out of the office, ending this organizational talk.

Even though the talk was short and the content was bland, it was still Li Xuewu's first stop after reporting for duty at the Political and Legal Cadre College.

Zhang En Yuan was waiting by the car. As he walked out of the school's office building, he opened the rear car door, causing the passing teachers and students to look over frequently.

Li Xuewu didn't care about the surrounding gazes, walked toward the car with big strides, nodded to Zhang En Yuan, and got into the car.

Zhang En Yuan also didn't care about the surrounding gazes, closed the car door, and turned to the passenger seat.

The car started slowly and drove toward the college gate under some casual gazes or meaningful stares.

Why can an enterprise cadre become a professor at a political and legal college? This is truly too abnormal.

"Seventeen thousand people, at least that number." Ao Yuhua glanced at the notebook in her hand and once again confirmed the number.

Li Xuewu turned around to look at Li Huai De, waiting for his opinion.

"Everything has two sides, doesn't it?" Li Huai De pinched his eyebrows and said faintly, "The difference lies in the fact that we must find the optimal option."

"No one can be sure which option is the optimal solution." Li Xuewu shrugged and said faintly, "Different times, different choices. The current choice is the best choice."

Li Huai De raised his head and looked at him deeply, then turned to look at Jing Yunong sitting on the sofa, wanting to hear her opinion.

Perhaps because she didn't want to sit with Li Xuewu, and even less wanted to be close to him, even if Old Li was sitting behind the desk, she didn't lean in.

"If there's a choice, of course we can't let go." Jing Yunong had just returned from Steel City, her face still carrying the fatigue of illness, and her voice was a bit hoarse as she replied, "Unfortunately, there's no choice."

Seeing that she was of the same opinion, Li Huai De sighed deeply and said, "Before the New Year, the personnel department did a statistic on the group's existing employees. I remember it was over sixty thousand."

He flipped through the documents at hand and said helplessly, "In this way, there are only forty-five thousand left?"

"No one expected that Shen Fei would have such courage."

Li Xuewu spread his hands and said amusedly, "In Fengcheng, Wang Xin told me they were prepared to fight a battle with their backs to the river, succeed or die."

"Hehe—" Li Huai De threw the document in his hand aside and said with a mocking laugh, "It doesn't even count as entrepreneurship, let alone a battle with their backs to the river."

Li Xuewu turned his head and glanced at Jing Yunong, who returned him a big eye-roll.

This was all seen by Li Huai De, whose expression was subtle and complex. Are they not even acting out the surface unity in front of him?

"Don't forget, there's still 5%."

Jing Yunong hugged her arms and glanced to the side, reminding them faintly, "Shen Fei isn't a fool to be slaughtered either."

"Of course they aren't fools. No one said they were fools; they are very smart." Li Xuewu turned his head to look at Li Huai De and emphasized, "You must also think so."

Li Huai De shrugged, imitating his appearance, and was very agreeable to this point of view.

"I'm just saying their ambition for tertiary industry investment even exceeds the necessary caution." Li Xuewu raised his eyebrows, smiled, and said, "We still have a conscience, don't we?"

"If you insist on saying so."

Li Huai De first frowned and glanced at him, then chuckled and said, "Then I have to admit this point."

"..." Jing Yunong twitched her lips, her gaze sweeping over the two of them, almost cursing that neither of them was a good egg.

"People should still be given to them; otherwise, they will complain about drawing the firewood from under the cauldron." Li Huai De put down the fountain pen in his hand, leaned back in his chair, looked at the two of them, and said, "5%, hmm."

"If you keep saying this, I'll feel guilty." Li Xuewu raised his eyebrows and said, "Do you want me to use 'naivety' to describe them?"

"Or, pay some tuition?"

Li Huai De's equally shameless expression made Jing Yunong feel disgusted. The two of them putting on this show only opened her eyes to the complex relationships within the group.

"One day they will understand that the 5% left behind cannot limit the Red Steel Group, but will instead trip them up."

Li Xuewu packed up his notebook, curled his lips, and said, "I hope Wang Xin can find me a big plane. I'm even willing to wait for him for a year or two."

"I hope so, after all, five million in five years."

Jing Yunong didn't seem to be interested in his expectations and assumptions. Seeing that Li Huai De had nothing to do, she stood up and prepared to leave.

Li Huai De rarely stood up to see them off. At the door, he reminded them seemingly unintentionally, "Pay attention to the city's movements."

Jing Yunong naturally heard Li Xuewu mention this, just glanced at the two of them, and went to her office.

Li Xuewu stood at the office door. After Jing Yunong left, he turned to look at Old Li and asked, "Has the list come out yet?"

"We are not within the scope of retention."

Li Huai De gave the final answer. His tone was full of disappointment that he couldn't help, but it was still acceptable.

Li Xuewu didn't feel very surprised. With Old Li's reminder, he had already made the worst preparations.

However, it couldn't be called the worst preparation. After all, the relationship with the ministry wasn't easier to get along with than the city's, and conversely, the city's resources were tighter.

The competitive relationship among industrial enterprises is always big fish eating small fish. The size of the Red Steel Group is no longer the Red Star Steel Rolling Factory that needed to endure humiliation back then.

Returning to the management sequence of Jingcheng industry with the posture of a formal group, perhaps it could have more say.

At least Old Li could express his thoughts in the Jingcheng industrial meeting.

"Have you reported in?"

Li Huai De was still very concerned about his dynamics. Seeing him nod, he couldn't help but sigh.

Li Xuewu didn't say anything. Some things didn't need him to say, and some things were the same whether said or not.

"Are you free?"

"I heard you're back. Let's have a meal together."

Receiving Yu Shui's call, Li Xuewu wasn't surprised, just a bit unexpected.

He pressed his finger on the glass countertop and counted. So it was Yu Shui today.

Yu Shui was born on the day of Rain Water, so she was named Yu Shui. Her birthday was easy to remember.

"Lunch or dinner?"

Li Xuewu didn't refuse and asked casually, "Where to eat? International Hotel?"

"Let's go eat hot pot, seafood hot pot."

Yu Shui didn't want to eat at the International Hotel. Her colleagues were all there, and eating there was no different from eating a work meal.

And she didn't want to go to Langtaosha because there was a very high probability of meeting her brother. She had had enough of her brother's nagging and didn't even want to go home.

But the restaurants in the city that could be chosen were just these few. After eating the group's restaurants, the other time-honored brands no longer had any flavor.

Of course, she couldn't go to Qinyunchun either. Qin Huairu was almost permanently stationed there because many cadres were received there, and she paid special attention to it.

So using the elimination method, she could only choose Yujiaao.

The seafood at Yujiaao was transported from Jinmen. It couldn't be said to be particularly fresh, but at least those that wouldn't die wouldn't die.

Winter is the right time to eat seafood, and even without refrigerated trains, seafood can be transported to the market.

What is mentioned here is not the general Jingcheng supply and marketing market, but the internal supply chain of the Red Steel Group. The Jingcheng Supply and Marketing Company also sells seafood, but not like the Red Steel Supply and Marketing Department.

Seafood highlights the word 'fresh'. The Red Steel Group didn't establish its own supply chain, but provided a transportation system for Jinmen Shunfeng Trading.

And Jinmen Shunfeng Trading was the largest distributor of the Red Steel Group Sales Corporation, and the two sides had a cooperative relationship.

So it wasn't strange to see seafood in the Riverside Market and the supply and marketing service departments under the group.

Since the beginning of winter, several large canteens of the Red Steel Group in Beijing had even purchased some seafood products. This was the confidence brought by the decreasing total number of group employees.

Li Xuewu emphasized the disadvantages brought by the reduction in the number of employees when communicating with Li Huai De and Jing Yunong, but the advantages were also very obvious.

The most direct advantage was the financial budget. The total number of employee benefits was fixed. With fewer people, the per capita benefit budget naturally increased.

Yujiaao, as the fist catering brand for seafood products in the Red Steel Group's internal supply and marketing system, naturally had dishes that couldn't be picked apart.

If you had to pick a few faults, perhaps the price could be considered one.

"Are you treating or am I treating?"

Li Xuewu looked at her and asked with a faint smile when she said she wanted to eat seafood, "If you treat, I don't care, we can go anywhere."

"If I treat, then I have to think carefully. What if the money isn't enough?"

"I treat, you pay. Is that okay?" Seeing him joking, Yu Shui also teased him with a smile.

Perhaps someone came to the office, she coughed lightly and said, "Fine, that's it. I get off work at 5:30 in the evening."

After speaking, she didn't wait for Li Xuewu's reply and hung up the phone.

Li Xuewu looked at the phone, his eyebrows twitched, thinking about her intention of taking the initiative to invite him to dinner.

In fact, he hadn't taken the initiative to contact her for over a year, and she hadn't taken the initiative to contact him, and they hadn't met a few times even in the courtyard.

Li Xuewu would definitely go home to take a look every time he returned to Beijing, but Yu Shui no longer lived at home.

Regarding this point, Sha Zhu was also quite helpless. Without the condition of using old real estate for exchange, Yu Shui bought an internal commercial house in the Workers' New Village with her own savings.

Saying it was her own savings, it was only enough for a part. She originally planned to take out a loan, but how could Sha Zhu let her?

Money was no longer an issue for Sha Zhu. In the past, life was difficult because no one had money, even if you wanted to borrow it, you couldn't borrow it.

However, the conditions in the factory were better now, so the living conditions of the employees were better.

He first borrowed a part from First Uncle, then opened his mouth to Shen Guodong, and finally the two of them pooled the rest, and finally gathered enough house payments.

Yu Shui didn't want her brother to owe debt, but she couldn't beat her brother's temper, so the house was bought in full.

Sha Zhu paid for one reason: the house at home had a share for his sister. If Yu Shui really got married, the house would naturally be left to him.

But until now, Yu Shui had no intention of getting married, so how could he be embarrassed to take advantage of his sister?

The second reason was that she was his own sister, so he had to help her. When he renovated the new house for his marriage, Yu Shui also took out money.

However, he regretted supporting Yu Shui to buy the house, not because he owed debt, but because Yu Shui rarely came back after moving.

Even if she came back, it was to see her sister-in-law and nephew, and she even specifically chose to come back when he wasn't at home. He wanted to nag but couldn't find anyone.

If Sha Zhu couldn't meet Yu Shui, then Li Xuewu would meet her even less.

Over a year of peace, and now she called to invite him to dinner on this day. Is it reasonable?

It was precisely because of the peace of the past year that Li Xuewu couldn't refuse her.

It was just a birthday, so there had to be a gift, right? Could he go empty-handed?

"Aren't you unable to drive?"

Yu Shui came out of the unit and just arrived at the roadside when she saw his car.

It was really a bit conspicuous. She was too familiar with this Willys.

"I can't even have dinner alone with a female colleague after work." Li Xuewu glanced at her and asked, "Do you agree with this point?"

"Why? Do you have to call a few people together?" Yu Shui narrowed her eyes and glared at him, "Do you want me to call my brother over?"

"I surrender to you—" Li Xuewu stepped on the accelerator, and the Willys darted out.

This car had been in Shen Guodong's hands, and later given to Li Xuecai.

But when it was in Shen Guodong's hands, it had undergone a full vehicle maintenance. Basically, except for the outer shell being original, everything else was replaced with new ones.

So the car looked very old on the outside and wasn't conspicuous at all when driving on the street.

Yu Shui, sitting in the passenger seat, was very quiet and didn't chatter about the past.

Perhaps she was already tired of her brother's nagging and wouldn't learn this bad habit.

Li Xuewu didn't want the awkward atmosphere to gradually become ambiguous, so when the two decided who would speak first, he broke the deadlock with a "How have you been lately?"

"Are you asking about work or life?"

Yu Shui turned to look at him, with no surprise or joy on her face.

Li Xuewu also turned to look at her, shrugged, and said, "Life."

"Just like that, monotonous, unchanging." He Shui turned to look out the car window. The night scene of Jingcheng at this time had a bit of blur.

"Then what about work?" Li Xuewu was also looking for words, as long as there wasn't that damn silence in the car.

"Also like that." He Shui said faintly, "Monotonous, unchanging."

Beautiful! She must have read the complete works of Lu Xun!

Li Xuewu bit his lip, really wanting to praise her for being able to kill such a topic.

"Do you feel any changes in Jingcheng since you came back?" Yu Shui was silent for a long time, then suddenly turned to look at him and asked.

"What changes?" Li Xuewu looked at the street scenery outside the car window and tried to reply, "Cleaner?"

It must be said that this is an advantage that Jingcheng must mention, even cleaner than in later generations.

There were still too many people in Jingcheng in later generations. When there are too many people, the sanitary environment will become worse. I really dare not imagine how the years before the national sanitary governance were lived.

Some people's so-called white pollution and garbage-besieged city arguments only took less than twenty years to change everything.

Garbage-besieged city?

Don't make trouble. In later generations, garbage is so scarce that they even dig up the urban garbage buried in the past few decades.

And the garbage produced by the city every day is not enough for the processing plant to consume. The mechanical equipment of the processing plant even only uses less than 60% efficiency.

That "Under the Dome" completely became someone's self-moving, and she didn't even figure out what had happened over the years.

Take Jingcheng at this time, you dare not guarantee it at night, but during the day, especially on the big road, if you dare to flick cigarette butts, there will be old ladies with armbands looking for you to fine you, and scold you.

"Do you feel that this city is more mature?" Yu Shui looked at the front of the car, where the headlights shone, and said, "Even mature to the point of... being old?"

"Heh—" Li Xuewu gave a light laugh, turned his head to look at her, and said faintly, "Cities have no emotions; the one with emotions is you."

This sentence didn't arouse Yu Shui's resonance, but instead pulled her back from this self-feeling to reality, making her quite dissatisfied.

Seeing this, Li Xuewu also knew that there was no need to endure the awkward atmosphere, and didn't say much along the way.

"A position in the lobby will do, two people."

Li Xuewu opened the door, invited He Yu Shui into the lobby, and mentioned it when he met the waiter who came to greet them.

The waiter naturally recognized who they were at first glance. There were few in the group's service department who hadn't been trained at the International Hotel. He Yu Shui was the general manager of the International Hotel.

Li Xuewu didn't need to be mentioned. His photos were often published in the group's internal newspapers. It would be strange if they didn't recognize the two of them.

"Two leaders, please this way."

Without needing to be pointed out, the waiter led them to a relatively quiet corner, where they could see the night view outside the window without having to endure the gazes in the lobby.

There were only two of them. It wouldn't be appropriate to have a private room, which would make people misunderstand.

He Yu Shui didn't think about saving him money. When looking at the menu, her mouth had already started ordering dishes, mostly meat, and a few vegetables.

Seafood hot pot couldn't just be seafood. At this time, meat also became a side dish.

After ordering the side dishes, she returned the menu to the waiter and ordered the main dishes one by one.

"More variety, less quantity, try to taste as much as possible."

She was quite good at eating and didn't ask for Li Xuewu's opinion. After ordering, she returned the menu to the waiter, "We don't drink alcohol, bring a pot of tea."

The waiter smiled and responded, took the menu, and turned to leave.

"Afraid I won't be able to eat seafood in Liaodong?"

Li Xuewu looked at her amusedly and asked, "There's no need to order so much, right?"

"Don't be self-indulgent—"

He Yu Shui glanced at him and said, "It's just that I want to eat it. If I can't finish it, I'll give it to you."

Li Xuewu nodded amusedly and

"More variety, less quantity, try to taste as much as possible."

She certainly knows how to eat, and didn't ask for Li Xuewu's opinion; after ordering, she returned the menu to the waiter, "We aren't drinking alcohol, bring a pot of tea."

The waiter smiled and agreed, took the menu, and turned to leave.

"Afraid I won't be able to eat seafood in Liaodong?"

Li Xuewu looked at her amusedly and said: "There's no need to order so much, right?"

"Don't be self-indulgent—"

He Yu Shui glanced at him and said: "It's just that I wanted to eat it; if I can't finish it, I'll give it to you."

Li Xuewu nodded amusedly and said: "Okay, I'm being self-indulgent."

After finishing, he took a gift box from the bag at his side and pushed it to her, saying: "Birthday gift."

"That little bourgeois set?"

He Yu Shui first glanced at him, raised her eyebrows, and then took the gift box, saying: "You learned this after one trip to East Germany?"

Li Xuewu had long been used to her consistent sarcasm after loving but not getting; seeing the waiter bring the tea, he took the initiative to take it and pour the tea.

"Fountain pen?" He Yu Shui opened the gift box, looked at him with some surprise, took out the fountain pen, examined it, and asked: "Is it expensive?"

"Not as expensive as this meal." Li Xuewu twitched the corner of his mouth and said: "Don't be self-indulgent, I just couldn't find anything else to give you."

"Hehe—" He Yu Shui didn't take his bait at all, smiled and put it away, saying: "Consider you still have a bit of conscience."

"Hmm? How so?" Li Xuewu raised an eyebrow and asked: "I haven't done anything irresponsible, right?"

"It would be really good if you dared to do it."

Yu Shui glanced at him, picked up the teacup, took a sip, and said: "Thank you; this is still the first birthday gift I've received."

"You aren't misunderstanding anything, right?"

Li Xuewu pretended to test her with a glance and explained: "I don't have any other meaning."

"Is it necessary, you—" Yu Shui rolled her eyes at him impatiently, turned her head to look out the window, and said: "I've never forced you to do anything, right?"

"If I have to say it, just for this point, I respect you as a man." Li Xuewu picked up the teacup to signal and said: "In terms of loyalty, you absolutely have nothing to say."

He Yu Shui couldn't help but narrow her eyes; she is also a person, and a big girl being able to be so active and understanding is enough.

But thinking about it, she still held back.

"I didn't ask you on the car." She examined Li Xuewu and asked: "How are you in Liaodong?"

Not waiting for Li Xuewu to show off, she added: "Work and life."

"Still the same." Li Xuewu spread his hands and said with a smile: "Stereotypical, unchanging."

"Heh—" Seeing him being shameless, Yu Shui rolled her eyes at him and laughed herself.

This year's birthday finally has a bit of meaning.

"Actually, it's the truth; there's nothing fresh." Li Xuewu nodded sincerely and explained: "There is always endless work, and endless personnel relationships to deal with."

"You should be able to understand me now."

He opened his palm to signal Yu Shui and said: "You are in the service sector, you should understand what I'm saying."

"I'm not as hard-working as you, and even less tired than you." Yu Shui looked into his eyes, seemingly able to understand his exhaustion, and said: "Perhaps because of you, I don't have to be so tired."

"Starting to be self-indulgent again?" Li Xuewu looked at her with a smile, lowered his head, and took a sip of tea; a joke is a joke.

He Yu Shui also laughed; she was speaking the truth.

The hot pot and side dishes were served quickly; there were quite a few people coming to eat meat tonight, and the restaurant was already lively.

Anyone who runs a hot pot business doesn't have a particularly quiet occasion; if you dislike the noise, don't eat hot pot, or go to a private room upstairs to eat.

Hot pot is hot by nature, and the atmosphere in the restaurant also needs a kind of heat to set it off.

Yu Shui put the mutton into the pot, seemingly wanting to resolve the faint melancholy in her heart; can one meal solve all problems?

"I rarely eat things with shells; you eat more." Li Xuewu pushed the seafood at his side toward her and signaled: "I'll just eat some meat and vegetables."

"I know you aren't lacking anything."

He Yu Shui glanced at him and asked: "Did Yu Li go to your place?"

"Hmm, arranged for her to be responsible for the Steel City business."

Li Xuewu knew she had channels to understand the trends of the recycling station, and didn't intend to hide this matter from her; this was completely unnecessary.

So she asked, and he answered frankly.

Regarding Li Xuewu's attitude, Yu Shui didn't know how to react; perhaps she shouldn't have asked.

"That's good, there needs to be someone to take care of you."

Not knowing what she remembered, Yu Shui said faintly: "You are destined to be a master."

"When did this happen? How come I don't know?"

Li Xuewu raised an eyebrow, picked up a chopstick of meat from the pot, looked across the hot pot at the opposite side, and said: "Recently I've just been acting like a grandson."

"I don't believe it; you aren't the type who can bend and stretch." He Yu Shui also glanced at him and said amusedly: "I do believe you acting like a grandson to cheat others."

"I didn't expect your misunderstanding of me to be so deep." Li Xuewu shook his head helplessly and fiercely ate a mouthful of mutton; eating this stuff in winter is really fragrant.

"No misunderstanding, all understanding."

He Yu Shui picked up the cooked seafood, put it on a plate, peeled it, picked out the white meat inside, and sent it to Li Xuewu's bowl.

"Okay, I'll just eat this; you eat yours."

Li Xuewu nodded, signaling her not to busy herself for him, but He Yu Shui didn't stop because of this.

"Did Qin Huairu go find you?"

She glanced at Li Xuewu and said: "It's about asking about establishing a management company, right."

"You already know, yet you ask me."

Li Xuewu drank a mouthful of hot tea, relieved the heat wave in his mouth, and said faintly: "Don't you have any thoughts?"

"Me? What thoughts could I have."

He Yu Shui looked at him and said: "I'm just waiting for the new building to be built so I can move to the new office to work, overlooking the entire capital from a hundred meters high."

"The International Hotel will also establish an independent brand." Li Xuewu was a bit hungry, so his chopsticks didn't stop, and his mouth didn't stop either.

"You can have a psychological preparation; this is just the content discussed at the group's Management Committee office meeting; it might be implemented, or there might be changes."

"I don't need to prepare; having you is enough."

He Yu Shui picked up the teacup and drank a mouthful fiercely, relieved the spiciness in her mouth, and said while panting: "Qin Huairu wants to go further, I don't."

"I've been lucky enough to get to where I am today; I don't want to be your burden." She tilted her head, looked at Li Xuewu, and said: "Or rather, a weakness."

"I'm not being self-indulgent."

Not waiting for Li Xuewu to speak, she emphasized first, looking at him very seriously and saying: "I don't need to remind you; you should have already felt it."

Li Xuewu raised his eyes and glanced at her, seeing full worry in her eyes.

"Surrounded by malice, right?"

He Yu Shui's mouth moved slightly, saying: "Someone came to the International Hotel to secretly inquire about my situation, personal situation, and relationship with you."

She first glanced at Li Xuewu's expression, then said helplessly: "Sometimes I also think, everything is God's will."

Whether it's God's will, Li Xuewu doesn't know, but he knows that there are people in the group jumping up and down with ulterior motives.

Yu Shui seems to really just want to have a different birthday; she chatted about work for a few sentences and stopped, and then asked about his work in Liaodong.

The two chatted while finishing the table full of meat, vegetables, and seafood.

When checking out, it was naturally Li Xuewu; Yu Shui enjoyed this treatment very satisfactorily.

It's just that when coming out of the restaurant, the cold wind swept across her cheeks, making her a bit more sober, knowing the gap between dreams and reality.

"Do you dare to send me home?"

She smiled and challenged Li Xuewu; although she didn't return to the courtyard, she lived in the Workers' New Village, where it was very likely to meet acquaintances at this time.

Li Xuewu glanced at her, smiled lightly, and said: "Feel free to show off; anyway, we are upright and open, aren't we?"

Hearing him say this, Yu Shui felt a bit discouraged; she didn't want to show off, she didn't want to be upright and open; can't there be something else?

On the 21st, the last day before Li Xuewu left the capital, he had to fulfill his obligation as an associate professor, the teaching task of four classes per month.

So from the moment he woke up in the morning, he was preparing for this.

"Aren't you wearing a uniform?" Seeing him change into a white shirt and jacket, Gu Ning asked with some surprise: "There should be a requirement, right?"

"I haven't received any relevant requirements."

Li Xuewu buttoned up, saying: "There are only four classes a month; there's no need to be so rigid; they have to adapt to this habit of mine."

"You don't need to do this." Gu Ning knew he didn't want to teach, and even less wanted to attend class, but this wasn't a choice she and Li Xuewu could make.

"It's also a kind of attitude, isn't it?"

Li Xuewu adjusted his collar, then turned to look at Gu Ning and asked with a smile: "Will it be too handsome? Showing off isn't my habit."

Gu Ning glanced at him amusedly and said: "Take your daughter with you."

Li Shu is a little clever ghost; for her father's wallet, she said whatever sounded good, and during breakfast, she almost praised her father to the skies.

If it's about worship, Li Shu must be the person who worships him the most, while Li Ning only has one sentence, "Dad is good," and can't say anything else.

Of course, if you ask Li Ning "Is Mom good?", his answer is the same, "Good."

The associate professor doesn't have a car, but the Secretary-General does.

So at eight o'clock in the morning, Li Xuewu's car stopped on time at the entrance of the teaching building of the Political and Legal Cadre College, and he got out of the car under the gaze of students who came early for class.

The deputy director of the office was very thoughtful, preparing everything needed for his class, including the student roster.

In fact, the cadre college where he teaches doesn't recruit from society, and there is no option for this college in the college entrance examination; the students come from various departments of the system, and it is a recommendation-based selection.

So Li Xuewu, carrying a briefcase in his left hand and a thermos in his right, walked into the classroom when the bell rang, only to find that he might be the youngest.

"Stand up! Salute!"

The greeting before class at the Political and Legal Cadre College is a very serious task; all students will stand up and salute under the monitor's command, and only then will the teacher return the salute and give the order.

Li Xuewu returned the salute while walking, walked to the podium, and ordered: "Sit."

A simple "sit," clean and neat.

Some students are from a transferred cadre background and can hear the military content in his command, especially the salute while walking; the movements of an ordinary person wouldn't be so dashing.

"I am the professor for this class."

Li Xuewu scanned the students under the podium, picked up a piece of chalk, turned back, and wrote "Criminal Psychology" and "Li Xuewu" on the blackboard.

His chalk writing is average, because he never thought he would be able to stand on the podium one day, so he didn't learn or practice chalk writing.

Unlike his older brother and sister-in-law, whose fountain pen writing is beautiful, and whose chalk writing is also very good-looking.

Chalk writing, fountain pen writing, and brush writing are not the same thing; writing the latter two well only means the chalk writing isn't bad, but it still can't compare to an old teacher.

Actually, there's no need to judge his background from the chalk writing; just looking at his age, you know he's a rookie.

But there are no rookies sitting below, and they aren't young people just starting out; neither their mature thinking nor strict discipline allows them to adopt an attitude of contempt.

Abnormal things must have a demon.

Such a young associate professor coming to teach them must have something to offer.

In fact, when he walked into the classroom, some students had already recognized who he was.

And just after he wrote his name, other students also saw the author's name on the textbook in their hands.

Textbooks don't need to be distributed; you can buy them from bookstores, and some people even bought them long ago, or could find them on the bookshelves of their units.

Just looking at the scar on his face and the name on the blackboard, where is there any need for self-introduction, or even the procedure of establishing authority?

There is a saying in the world: A person's name is like the shadow of a tree.

The name Li Xuewu alone is enough to explain the gold content of this class, not to mention the cases he solved in the past that still circulate among some departments.

The youngest criminal investigation expert in the ministry, also the founder of criminal psychology, and there is even a "Public Security Management" that is "sweeping" through grassroots units.

The students didn't need to discuss; they had already straightened their bodies, waiting for him to give his first class.