3. In private, the dust, smoke, dream and rain are like ink to dye more
After being surprised, the vice-principal finally received my distress message, stepped forward and apologized with a smile: "Minister Xu, this is Teacher Xu from our school, haha, after all, you are still from the same family."
Just by looking at the vice-principal's attitude, I knew that the man who grabbed my hand had a good background. Although I didn't quite know how senior "Minister Xu" was. But he looked at him fiercely as if he hadn't heard what the vice-principal said.
I don't even blink.
I felt a little uncomfortable, because the gaze was like an ice knife scraping my face bit by bit. It didn't hurt, but it was uncomfortable. This discomfort spread throughout my body, turning my slightly painful leg joints into heart-wrenching.
It hurt. In the corner of his eye, cold sweat broke out on the vice-principal's forehead. He wiped it again and again, but he didn't dare to say anything anymore. Others around him stood there and didn't dare to come forward, looking at us in silence.
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For a moment, the atmosphere was depressing and stagnant.
I had no choice but to save myself. After clearing my throat, I lowered my eyes slightly and said humbly: "Hello, Minister Xu. My name is Xu Ruo. I am the Chinese teacher of Class 3 (1). Please give me your advice."
"Xu Ruo?" Minister Xu repeated my name, with a puzzled expression on his face.
I suddenly felt powerless, which way is the wind blowing recently? Why did both of them admit the wrong person? The same goes for the father of the boy I met when I had a buffet with Xie Ya last time. The leader in front of me actually also admitted the wrong person.
Finally, someone came up to him and reminded him: "Minister, it's time for the interview."
The man frowned his beautiful eyebrows but did not move. He stared at me for half a minute, then finally released his clasped hands and asked softly: "Your name is Xu Ruo?"
I nodded, secretly let out a long sigh of relief, and finally listened. The vice-principal took the opportunity to intervene, but he said to me: "Teacher Xu, the ceremony is not over yet, why are you out? Come over quickly, Minister Xu will finish it later.
There’s a meeting for us.”
He hurriedly responded, as if he had received an amnesty order. He didn't care about the pain in his leg joints, and hurried back. The air pressure was so strong and low that he could hardly breathe, but he only took a few steps when he heard an exclamation from behind him.
"Minister Xu" came and went, quietly turned around and glanced away, only to see the man kneeling on the ground in embarrassment. His eyes were still following me, but his sight was quickly blocked by someone else's figure.
I stuck out my tongue, turned around and walked away. When I returned to my seat, I found that the student representative was already speaking, and the opening ceremony was about to end. I looked around and saw that the principal was nowhere to be seen. He must have gone to receive the group of leaders.
If it was as the vice-principal said, after the ceremony, the students dispersed into the class to wait for new books, and the teachers were all sent to the conference room for a meeting. I intentionally walked in at the end with several teachers and entered in front of the long conference table.
The seats were already full, so I sat in the extra seat in the back row.
A fierce gaze came directly at me, and I buried my head and chose to ignore it. After listening to the principal's introduction, I realized how powerful Minister Xu was. He was actually a provincial-level cadre, but not from this province, but from another province. This
The first time I came here was that there was an education project that needed to be verified, and the two provinces exchanged targeted selected schools for inspection.
Although our city is not a provincial-level city, the superior leaders mainly carry out projects for lower-level cities. Firstly, they can verify whether the education system is perfect. Secondly, they need to expand urban construction by expanding education. Later, they will also select outstanding teachers from schools.
Go to a certain place to do volunteer teaching work in order to improve the quality of teachers.
It can be seen that the leaders above are paying more and more attention to children's basic education, starting from elementary school. But what makes me feel puzzled is that from the introduction of the principal and the leaders, it seems that Minister Xu is not the Minister of Education.
How can you reach out across the border and come to take care of education matters?
Minister Xu spoke a few official words, his tone was low and powerful, and full of panache. I thought the principal and other leaders could be described as frightened. At the end of the meeting, everyone stood up but stood silently, waiting for Minister Xu and others to slowly walk out of the door.
Everyone left one after another. I always returned to being a "head-bowed person". Even so, I could feel the last person glance at me when he was leaving the house.
Teacher Zhang came close to me and whispered: "Then Minister Xu seems to be looking at you all the time." I pushed her with my shoulder and said with a smile: "How do you know he is looking at me? Maybe he is looking at you." We just said
We sit next to each other. She and I are usually closest, and we often joke around in the office.
She laughed and scolded: "You should be poor." But a blush spread across her face. I was secretly amused, good-looking men are popular everywhere. In fact, it's not a Cinderella dream, it's just that if there is such a handsome and career
A successful man will favor you very much, which will definitely give you a sense of arrogance.
Obviously, Minister Xu is not only a successful and handsome man, he also has an inherent sense of nobility and superiority, which must be related to his environment. Just like the second-generation official and the second-generation rich man in the eyes of ordinary people
They think they are the same kind of people, but in their eyes, the rich disdain to associate with officials, and those who are officials think that the rich smell too coppery. In other words, there is still a gap in their world.
What I didn't expect was that the man I was criticizing would appear downstairs in my house two days later. He leaned against the door of a dark black Nissan car, lit a cigarette in his hand, and casually draped it over the car.
Indescribable depth and laziness, if you don't look at his gloomy face.
Naturally, I would not think that he happened to be passing by here, parked under my building, and was waiting beside the car. After hesitating for a few seconds, he stepped forward, curved the corners of his mouth in a standard arc, and greeted politely: "Xu Xu."
Hello, Minister."
He didn't speak, his eyes were dark, and the thin light inside was a little scary. I forced myself to calm down, and said with a forced smile: "Does Minister Xu have a problem with me?" If it is an order, then as a subordinate, I have to do it unconditionally.
Agreed; if it were to find out why the person he knew and I looked alike, then I would be helpless.
Unexpectedly, he looked at me for a while and suddenly said: "Xu Ziyang."
I was stunned for a moment and blinked, not knowing what it meant.
"My name is Xu Ziyang. You don't need to call me Minister Xu in private, just call me by my name."
Now I feel it is more difficult. His name has naturally spread in the past two days. After all, a leader as young and handsome as him is rare, and there will always be people gossiping about it. The main thing is that he asked me to call him in private.
I don't think the name is appropriate at all. Not to mention that I only met him for the second time and had no personal relationship at all. How could I have the opportunity to call him by his first name "privately"? On the other hand, this man is too imposing.
It was so overwhelming that the scene during our first meeting left me with lingering fears, and I stayed away from him.
So at the moment I just chuckled awkwardly and did not express my position.
He didn't care either. He threw the burned cigarette butt on the ground and stepped on it with his leather shoes. The spark was immediately extinguished. I didn't dare to show my frown and disgust, but I snorted in my heart. Isn't it a leading cadre?
Should he set an example? The trash can is ten meters ahead on the left, and he actually littered the street.
While I was still thinking wildly, I suddenly heard him ask: "Teacher Xu, let's go for a walk together?" I raised my eyebrows, as if he was asking for my opinion, but seeing his strong attitude, he was used to giving orders. I
I was still thinking about how to refuse in my mind, so I heard him raise his tone: "Why don't you go upstairs to Mr. Xu for a cup of tea? I wonder if that would be presumptuous?"
The corners of my eyes twitched, but his expression didn't seem presumptuous at all. I could only sigh and said, "There is a milk tea house in front of you. If you don't mind, Minister Xu, why don't you go have a cup of milk tea?" I regretted it as I spoke.
, Milk tea, a popular drink, belongs to the lower class. Leader-level elites like him should drink coffee.
But I don’t like the bitterness of coffee, and I was told by Xu Jie not to drink coffee. I never paid attention to whether there were coffee shops nearby. According to Xu Jie, I had suffered from appendicitis due to an infection caused by a gastritis attack, so I had to be strict about my diet.
Control and avoid eating spicy and other irritating things.
Although I looked remorseful, the man next to me said nonchalantly: "Then please ask Teacher Xu to lead the way." I had no choice but to walk side by side with him. Even though there was some distance between the two of us, I could still feel his strong aura.
Soon we arrived at the milk tea house with a green sign - Xinyu Xinjian. The name was very unique. The milk tea girl was called Xiaoli. When she saw us from a distance, she greeted us: "Teacher Xu, come to buy milk tea."
Raising a smile, I come here to buy a drink basically every evening. In addition to liking the feeling of the warm liquid sliding over my lips and the fragrance lingering on my lips and teeth, I also like the friendly smile on the girl’s face, which makes me feel good.
There were relatively simple tables and chairs in the milk tea house. I looked at the door and felt a little embarrassed. I turned my head and asked, "How about... changing to another place?"
But he stepped inside and said: "This is not bad."
So I had no choice but to follow in and order milk tea at the bar first. Xiaoli knew my preference. Double spelled, pearls were changed to coconut, but what about his? I looked inside and saw that he had already chosen
He sat down in the innermost position, facing inward, and left a silhouette of his back to me, which was deep and difficult to understand.
In the end, I had to order the same thing as me, walked over and sat down opposite him. But after I sat down, I felt it was inappropriate. This seat was in the corner. When he sat outside, he seemed to completely surround me.
A faint sense of oppression came over immediately.
I felt secretly wary. It was obvious that this man was intentional. He knew how to control the overall situation. He could only force himself to calmly fiddle with the leaflets on the table, but his palms were already sweating nervously.
There was silence until Xiaoli brought the milk tea, and then he slowly said: "Xu Ruo, I came to see you because I have something I want to ask you about." Such a straightforward opening was beyond my expectation, and he automatically said "Teacher Xu."
"The title was changed to "Xu Ruo", which made me a little uneasy.
He didn't seem to need me to answer. After a pause, he added: "You... are very similar to a person I know. I was presumptuous that day. If I hadn't pulled up your file to check, I might not have believed that there is such a similarity in this world."
