I asked the secretary to prepare cured meat. I told him not to have the packaged kind, but to buy pure cured meat, and then package it after buying it. And I asked him to prepare three portions.
I said to him: "Prepare one for Xiao Sui's parents. You are a local, so I won't consider you. Xiao Sui is different, his family lives in the provincial capital."
Xiao Xu smiled and said: "Mayor Feng, I know."
In fact, I know that he has a very good relationship with Xiao Sui. To be precise, he and Xiao Sui admire each other very much. Xiao Sui is a soldier who has changed his career, and he is also a special guard in the armed police. In fact, now I understand that the so-called special
Guards are specially trained soldiers. They are not as mysterious as the SWAT police on TV. Maybe they have special skills in grappling, fighting and shooting, but that's it.
Xiao Xu is a cultural person in Xiao Sui's eyes, and his job is to contact the director below and the heads of other departments for me.
Therefore, the relationship between the civil and military people around me is very good because of mutual sympathy. Of course, they also know that I will not allow the two of them to have conflicts, and I have reminded them of this.
In fact, the two of them have a lot of extra income. I often attend various activities in the city, and there are always red envelopes. When I first arrived in Shangjiang City, I was not used to this local practice, but later
I understand, it happens everywhere in the country, not just in our Shangjiang City, so I just let nature take its course and accept it calmly.
Every time the people below give me red envelopes, the driver and secretary are there, but the money in the red envelopes is less, and the people in the department below often give the driver and secretary high-end cigarettes. They know it very well, and they can handle it.
If you lead the people around you, some things will be much easier to handle.
I roughly calculated that the red envelopes I received over the course of the year, including New Year's greetings from various departments at the end of the year, amounted to at least nearly 200,000 yuan. Of course, there were also many from secretaries and drivers.
This income is actually recognized as "legal" by everyone. Even Secretary Rong cannot change it after she gets here, she has to accept it every time. There are no fish in clear water ponds, so of course she
I understand. Let alone the local area, isn’t it the same in the province?
But I still pay attention to it. For example, when it comes to preparing preserved meat this time, it’s not a big deal even if I prepare an extra portion for the secretary’s family, but I think that’s not good. This is not a welfare, it’s my responsibility as a leader to their family.
A kind of care. Last time I made a special trip to Xiao Xu's house, and that was enough.
Later, Xiao Xu prepared ten copies for me. He said to me: "Mayor Feng, these are really good things. You can put them in the car and give them away at any time."
I nodded. In fact, this is where Xiao Xu is smarter and more flexible. He knows that I personally don’t like such things, including cigarettes and alcohol. But I always have such things in my car because he knows that I may
Use these things to give away to others whenever you need them.
I am the mayor, and I often deal with people from various departments in the province. Treating guests and giving gifts is a common thing. And people often have a habitual thinking: the things given by the mayor must be good things. Since it is a conventional thinking, then
I can't prepare gifts too poorly either.
It is normal for local leaders to send souvenirs to some friends in the province. If they do not send souvenirs, they may be regarded as unusual by others. Of course, such things are not sent specially, but in passing.
The so-called incidental gift is to give such a gift to the person who deserves it after drinking tea or eating together. This is very important. Small things can connect with big feelings, because the recipient will feel in his heart that the person who gave the gift still remembers him.
In fact, the more I get now, the more bored I feel, because every year at the end of the year I have to spend a lot of time and experience going to New Year greetings or getting together with good friends. In other words, from now on I have to gradually arrange my time.
Already.
There is still some time before the Spring Festival. Although I went to Governor Huang this time, I still have to go there before the Spring Festival. Chinese people do not have the habit of celebrating the New Year, and more people still regard the Spring Festival as the dividing line between two years.
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The next day I set off to the provincial capital at 10:30 in the morning because I knew the real purpose of Governor Huang’s invitation to me tonight. I felt that Governor Huang now has an extraordinary regard for udon plums.
like.
In fact, if you think about it, not to mention that Udon Mei is very beautiful, but her special function is enough to make a man obsessed. Therefore, I must get the application for my graduate school before going to Governor Huang.
Professional and comprehensive examination content. This is the gift Governor Huang really needs.
Before I left, I called Guan Qin and told her that I would like to invite her to have a meal at noon and talk about something together. She happily agreed.
I immediately asked her what she wanted to eat, and she smiled and said to me: "Western food. I know there is a hotel in the provincial capital that serves very authentic Western food."
I smiled and said, "Okay. Then I'll pick you up?"
She smiled and said, "Okay. Just call me when you get to the hospital. I don't have any surgery today."
After arriving at the hospital, I picked her up and said, "Professor Guan, I'm curious, which restaurant in the provincial capital serves the most authentic Western food?"
She smiled and told me: "Victoria Restaurant. Have you been to the Western restaurant there?"
My heart suddenly felt a pain. I remember very clearly that it was the place where Lin Yu and I had our first meal, and it was also where I met Chen Yuan for the first time. I still remember everything about that day very clearly to this day.
That day, when I just walked into the western restaurant, I saw her as pure as water at first sight. She was like a fairy who did not eat the fireworks of the world, and between her fingers
What wafted out were mesmerizing notes. She was Chen Yuan, my later wife. However, now she has gone to another world, and she and I have different paths of life and death.
At this time, my soul was suddenly touched by the pipe organ, and my heart suddenly felt a needle-like pain. However, I immediately answered her, "Been there."
Guanqin is a woman after all. She immediately caught the abnormality in my expression and said, "Professor Feng, what's wrong with you?"
I sighed and said, "Nothing. Let's just go there."
But she was looking at me, "There must be something wrong with you. What happened to you in that place? How about we change places?"
I shook my head, "Nothing. My second wife and I met there. She is no longer here."
She immediately apologized and said to me, "I'm sorry."
I shook my head and said, "It's okay. Let's just go there. I also want to relive the feeling at that time."
She asked me softly: "The relationship between you and her must have been very romantic and touching, right? Professor Feng, can you tell me your story?"
I smiled bitterly and thought: Where can there be so much romance? I shook my head and said: "It's better not to talk about the past. Some things are better buried in the heart. Missing is actually a kind of beauty."
She looked at me and said, "Professor Feng, I didn't expect you to be so emotional."
I smiled and said, "Have you always thought that I am a cold-blooded animal?"
She said hurriedly: "I didn't mean that. I...how should I put it? I really didn't mean that..."
Now I understood, "Haha! I was joking too."
When we got there, I asked Xiao Sui not to go too far, and I would call him immediately after we finished eating. Then Guan Qin and I went to the western restaurant upstairs.
When I entered the hotel, I suddenly felt nervous because I suddenly remembered that Si Weimin's wife, Hu Xuejing, works here, and she is also the manager of the catering department here.