Chapter 2 Chapter two

When Fang Lianghua got home, his wife Hu Ju was already asleep.The nanny got up and opened the door and asked him if he would like a cup of tea.She smelled alcohol and cigarettes on Secretary Fang.Since Fang Lianghua was transferred to the Municipal Standing Committee, he basically went home after ten o'clock every night.One is because he is busy with work and has a lot of entertainment; the other is because he has been born and raised in the city of Nanzhou. There are many classmates, former colleagues, and many buddies in the city. After dinner, treat him to supper.Although Fang Lianghua was already the Secretary-General of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee, no matter how senior he was, he couldn't save these people's face.So he often eats two or even three meals a night.At the dinner, he held the shelf and drank some dry red.And at supper, he can no longer put on airs.Even if everyone treats him as the secretary-general, he has to condescend to drink liquor or beer like everyone else.Fortunately, Fang Lianghua's drinking capacity has been proven for a long time. So far, except for a few special private occasions, no one has seen him get drunk.However, in his own home, not only his wife Hu Ju knew, but also the nanny: Fang Lianghua was often drunk.His ability is that no matter how much he drinks, he never has any accidents outside, and he can return home next to each other.When I got home, I often ran to the bathroom and vomited.Hu Ju often said to him that this hurts the body the most.But Fang Lianghua could only smile.Why didn't he know that it would hurt his body like this, but he couldn't stop drinking, that was not Fang Lianghua's style.

Fang Lianghua took a sip of the tea handed over by the nanny, and then went to rinse it off a bit, feeling much better.Most of the smell of alcohol and smoke was gone, so I sat on the sofa.The nanny came over and said, "The old man came tonight." "Master? Is there something wrong?" Fang Lianghua asked. The nanny smiled and said, "I don't know. I left after sitting for a while." "Just him?" Fang Lianghua thought that the old man rarely came here, not even a few times a year.They are all in Nanzhou City, and the old man doesn't like Fang Lianghua's family very much.Why did you come here all of a sudden at night?

The nanny said while clearing the teacups: "I sat alone for a while and then left. I didn't seem very happy and didn't talk." Fang Lianghua snorted, and the nanny went back to bed.Fang Lianghua sat on the sofa alone.Mr. Fang was the former deputy secretary of the Nanzhou Municipal Party Committee and the deputy commissioner of the Nanzhou District in the early years.This old man participated in the Anti-Japanese War. He came off the battlefield of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea in the 1950s, and then transferred to work in Nanzhou City.The Fang family's ancestral home is in Shaanxi, but now there are no relatives in Shaanxi, so the ancestral home has become the real ancestral home.Mr. Fang has a bad temper, which is well-known in Nanzhou.In the early years, he used to carry a box gun to the countryside to inspect work.Seeing a township chief sleeping secretly during flood control, he almost shot the township chief dead.After graduating from university, Fang Lianghua returned to work in Nanzhou, initially in the Municipal Finance Bureau.Within a few years, Mr. Fang insisted on sending him to the county below, saying that young people must go to the grassroots to exercise.Fang Lianghua was first sent to Renyi County as a deputy county magistrate, and later he was promoted to be the deputy director of the Finance Bureau.Not three years later, Mr. Fang was on crutches again, found Zhang Minzhao, and insisted on transferring Fang Lianghua to Tongshan County as the county magistrate, and then as the secretary.From the perspective of outsiders, Mr. Fang led Fang Lianghua to the officialdom step by step.In fact, when Fang Lianghua served as the secretary of the Tongshan County Party Committee for three years, when the Provincial Party Committee was about to transfer him back to serve as the Secretary-General of the Standing Committee of the Nanzhou City Party Committee, he encountered strong opposition from the old man.The reason is simple: Fang Lianghua has not yet reached the time to be the leader of the municipal party committee.

For this matter, Fang Lianghua had an argument with the old man.From childhood to adulthood, although Fang Lianghua grew up in a family of cadres, he looked a bit dandy, but he was still responsible in his bones.In the words of the old man: it is not bad in essence.This is the foundation of being a man and being an official.On the surface, Fang Lianghua has always respected and obeyed the old man, often reporting this and that to the old man, and constantly listening to the old man's teachings.However, Fang Lianghua and the old man openly contradicted each other in two matters.The first thing is Fang Lianghua's marriage.After Fang Lianghua went to college, the old man arranged a marriage for him. The woman was the daughter of an old comrade in arms of the old man.The comrade-in-arms had already sat at the department level at that time, and the girl was pretty well-behaved.Fang Lianghua saw it, but he just didn't feel it.The real reason was that he had a crush in college, a girl who was admitted from the Xijiang countryside. She was not very beautiful, but the tenacity between her brows attracted Fang Lianghua.He and the old man have been fighting for three years, and finally ended with Fang Lianghua's victory.This rural girl is his current wife, Hu Ju.Although the old man agreed to their marriage, he has been lukewarm to Hu Ju since the marriage until now, so he spends less time at Fang Lianghua's house.Whenever there is nothing to do every week, Fang Lianghua will always spare some time to visit the old man's house.

The second thing was that Fang Lianghua was transferred to be the Secretary-General of the Standing Committee of the Nanzhou Municipal Committee. The old man not only disagreed, but even used some old connections to stop it.Of course, it also ended with Fang Lianghua's victory in the end.Fang Lianghua still hasn't really figured out the reason why the old man disagreed with him as secretary-general, but one thing is certain, that is, the old man's attitude towards him has changed a lot.According to the old man, after Fang Lianghua came to Tongshan as the secretary, he began to change.

When Hu Ju woke up and saw Fang Lianghua still sitting on the sofa, she stepped out with her shoes on and said, "Go to bed early, you'll be busy tomorrow." "Understood, you go to bed first, and I'll come." After Fang Lianghua finished speaking, Hu Ju went back to her room.Looking at Hu Ju's back, Fang Lianghua suddenly felt that it was incredible that he insisted on marrying Hu Ju against the old man.Hu Ju's changes over the years even far surpassed that of Fang Lianghua.Sometimes, even Fang Lianghua can feel that Hu Ju's sense of superiority as an official wife is constantly expanding.For a moment when he was alone, Fang Lianghua also doubted whether the original choice was correct, but there is no medicine for regret in the world, so he did not regret it.Moreover, in the past few years, with his work in Tongshan, he has more or less done some things that are not worthy of Hu Ju.So, at home, he treated Hu Ju the same as before.Even if it doesn't look pleasing to the eye sometimes, he doesn't say it.He kept these in his heart, and he didn't want the old man to laugh at him.

Since Fang Lianghua was transferred to the city, although he came back very late every night, there were always guests at home.Hu Ju received everything, and she also accepted everything left behind by visitors.For this reason, Fang Lianghua once warned her: Accept what should be accepted, and never accept what should not be accepted.However, Hu Ju still accepted them all, and once even accepted five thousand yuan from Wang Xueyan.This annoyed Fang Lianghua, he raged fiercely, but finally he was no match for Hu Ju's sharp mouth.Although the money was refunded in the end, he was unhappy.And Hu Ju's explanation is: "I don't know who he is, he wants to give up or leave him, what can I do?"

There is really no good way. There are some rules that everyone knows and must abide by.When Fang Lianghua called Wang Xueyan to get the money back, Wang Xueyan even scolded him angrily.After that, Wang Xueyan was always cautious every time he saw him, which made people sad.Fang Lianghua himself is also a man of the rules. He has sent money and things before, and he even sent a computer to the current Deputy Secretary Chengyi Road, but now they send money to him, and he has just become the secretary-general. Just send it off, he can't accept it, and this may be one of the main reasons why the old man is worried about him and doesn't agree with him coming up.The bigger the officer, the greater the risk.

From the perspective of the outside world, there were two people who benefited from the earthquake in Nanzhou's officialdom. One was Cheng Yiyi and the other was Fang Lianghua.But not many people know why Fang Lianghua can be the Secretary-General of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Committee.Fang Lianghua never said anything. It was rumored that an old classmate of Fang Lianghua was now in the organization department in Beijing and had written a recommendation to the Jiangnan Provincial Party Committee.But whether it is true or not, no one knows.This is the wonderful thing, the dragon sees the head but does not see the tail.

Thinking of this, Fang Lianghua gradually became sleepy.A text message sounded from the phone.It's so late, who is it?He lazily picked it up to look at it, but shivered.This familiar number made his heart tremble.There was a sentence written on the text message: "Did you forget? Come here when you are free." Naturally, Fang Lianghua would not forget this number.This was a call from a Tongshan woman, to be precise, a deputy secretary of the Tongshan Youth League Committee.She has a nice name, Yin Meier, she looks like a juicy person, and more importantly, she is kind and considerate.During Fang Lianghua's second year in Tongshan, he saw her in a remote village.Soon she was transferred to the Youth League Committee, and before he left Tongshan, he promoted her to be the deputy secretary of the Youth League Committee.Yin Meier also asked to be transferred to Nanzhou together, but Fang Lianghua flatly refused.Moreover, in the past few months, at the beginning, he often returned to Tongshan alone, and Yin Meier also came to Nanzhou a few times.But for nearly a month, he didn't go again, and he didn't agree to Yin Meier's coming.He was nostalgic for her, but he was a little bored.Subconsciously, there are still some inexplicable worries.

After deleting the text message, Fang Lianghua simply turned off the phone.I thought to myself: Really, alas, now this girl... When she got up the next morning, Hu Ju told Fang Lianghua, "Your old classmate, the bureau chief, came again last night. He wanted to send money, so I scolded him away." "That's good." Fang Lianghua said while getting dressed. "There is also your old man, who will look for you when he comes, as if I am not his daughter-in-law. Maybe there is something wrong, so angry..." Hu Ju always had a bad tone when talking about the old man. Fang Lianghua ignored him, got dressed and walked to the washroom.Hu Ju was still muttering: "Knowing this, I might as well be in Tongshan. It's so annoying." What Hu Ju said is true. In the past in Tongshan, although there were people looking for them, most of them went to the room where Fang Lianghua lived in the Tongshan County Party Committee Guest House. Run to the city to find it.Well now, there are people every night.Maybe Cheng Yiyi gave many people the impression that when Cheng Yiyi was the secretary-general, the secretary-general is a person with great power. Moreover, he is at the core of power and has a lot of information, so everyone rushed over.And because Fang Lianghua had just come up from the bottom, it was hard to refuse all of them.More and more people came, like crucian carp crossing the river. However, there were not many people who really approached Fang Lianghua with specific matters.What's more, what Fang Lianghua actually did was very little. Secretary-General Fang Lianghua went out. He only drank a glass of milk at home in the morning, and had breakfast in the municipal party committee cafeteria.When he got in the car, the driver reminded him that Secretary Qi, Mayor Zhao, and Secretary Cheng were all going to lay the foundation stone of the auto parts city for the investment promotion project of the Transportation Bureau in the morning.Fang Lianghua hummed, and when he arrived at the office after breakfast, he immediately asked his secretary Gao Tian to notify the three leaders' secretaries one by one.It's not good to remind the leader directly, just remind the leader's secretary.Sometimes, the secretary is the leader, and the leader is the secretary, two in one.It's just that one always stands in front and the other always stands behind. After a while, Director Wang Weiping of the Secrecy Bureau came over and reported that a city-wide secrecy meeting would be held.With the continuous improvement of the degree of openness, various economic secrecy work is becoming more and more important.In the early years, the production process of kraft ink paper that has been passed down for thousands of years in Jiangnan Province was leaked during the inspection of foreign businessmen.As a result, they produced it as soon as they got home, and our authentic kraft ink paper was sold out in the international market. In the end, our factory had to go bankrupt. After listening to the report, Fang Lianghua approved a few words on the report: "Agreed. Please confirm it with Secretary Yiyi." Then he asked Director Wang to find Deputy Secretary Chengyiyi. Director Wang took the report approved by Fang Lianghua and went upstairs to the office of Deputy Secretary Cheng Yiyi.There happened to be someone in the office, and Director Wang stepped back.Cheng Yiyi said, "Xiao Wang, is there something wrong?" Wang Weiping was proposed by Cheng Yiyi when Cheng Yiyi was the secretary-general, and became the director of the Secrecy Bureau.He took a step forward and handed over the report.Cheng glanced all the way, the key point was to read the words approved by Fang Lianghua, picked up the pen, drew a circle next to it, and wrote the word "agree".Wang Weiping said thank you.Zhang Feng, the director of the Construction Bureau who was sitting next to him, stood up at this moment and bid farewell to Cheng Yiyi.Cheng didn't send it all the way, but only handed a thick envelope to Zhang Feng.Zhang Feng had a strange expression on his face, he smiled awkwardly, and went out.Turning around, Cheng Yiyi smiled at Wang Weiping: "Oh! Now. Ah, I've been looking for you. I have to thank you for what happened last time." The last time Cheng Yiyi said, in fact, more than two months have passed.Zhang Xiaoyu returned to Nanzhou from Australia before the Spring Festival. She originally planned not to go, but her son Cheng Xiaolu agreed. Zhang Xiaoyu also went to the hospital for a few days.But after the Spring Festival, somehow, she changed her mind and insisted on going to Australia.The reasons for this, later analyzed by Cheng Yiyi, may be two points: one is that she learned the truth about her uncle Zhang Minzhao's case in detail after she came back, and persuaded Cheng Yiyi to leave Nanzhou earlier, but Cheng Yiyi did not listen; the second is that during the Spring Festival , People kept coming to the house, and she was upset, so she ran to the provincial capital to see her aunt, and her aunt said some things like life is like a battlefield, and human relationships are as thin as paper.These words greatly stimulated Zhang Xiaoyu who didn't like officialdom very much.So she went to Australia, where she could take care of her son and keep out of sight.Cheng Yiyi knew Zhang Xiaoyu's temper, once he made a decision, the nine cows would not be able to pull back, so he had no choice but to let it go.However, the last time Zhang Xiaoyu went to Australia was organized by Jiang Hechuan in the name of Nanri Group.Who are you looking for this time? Although Cheng Yiyi was the deputy secretary, he didn't care much about these things before.When looking for someone, I can't even think of it.In the end, I finally came up with one person, and that was Wang Weiping.One of Wang Weiping's older brothers worked in a medical school in Australia. Through this relationship, the medical school completed the formalities for Zhang Xiaoyu to come to Australia in the name of an invitation to visit.On the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, Zhang Xiaoyu set foot on the road to Australia again.Cheng sent her all the way to Beijing, and also visited the old chief by the way. Wang Weiping blushed and said, "That's a trivial matter, and I need the secretary to thank you." Cheng Yiyi smiled and asked casually, "Xiao Wang is almost forty, isn't he?" "Exactly forty." Wang Weiping replied. "Ah, hurry up. Work hard." After Cheng Yiyi finished speaking, he looked down at the document. Wang Weiping said thank you and withdrew.When he exited, he closed the door behind him. On the upper floor of the Municipal Party Committee Office, the doors of the office are divided into two types.The ones that are open all day and night belong to secretaries, drivers and other staff, while those that are half-closed all day are mostly owned by leaders.After Fang Lianghua became the secretary general of the municipal party committee, he was considering rearranging the office of the municipal party committee. Secretary Qi Ming also agreed, but it has not been implemented yet. Not long after Wang Weiping left, Chen Yang came up and said, "Secretary Cheng is about to attend the foundation laying ceremony of the Auto Parts City, and it's time to go." Cheng Yiyi asked, "Has Secretary Qi come down?" Chen Yang said: "Secretary Qi will come down immediately." Cheng Yiyi gathered the documents on the table, took another sip of tea, and went out.Chen Yang closed the door, and as soon as he got downstairs, Fang Lianghua was already waiting.Fang Lianghua said with a smile, "May Secretary Cheng preside over the groundbreaking ceremony later?" Cheng looked at Fang Lianghua all the way, and said after a while, "It's better to invite Mayor Shouchun to preside over it, and I'll just take part." "Then..." Fang Lianghua hesitated for a moment. Secretary Qi Ming has already come down.Cheng Yiyi stepped forward and said, "With Secretary Qi and Mayor Shouchun going, I won't go there, right?" "Haha, of course I'm going. You can give a speech, and Mayor Shouchun will preside over it." Qi Ming said as he got into the car. Cheng Yiyi quickly followed up and said, "Let's let Secretary Qi deliver the speech." Qi Ming said, "That's it." Cheng Yiyi sat in the car and immediately called Fang Lianghua, even though Fang Lianghua's car was in front.He asked Fang Lianghua to arrange for Mayor Shouchun to give a speech, and he would preside over it.