Chapter 27 Chapter 21

Li Xiangnan had just walked two steps while pushing the cart, when he raised his head, he was stunned.Xiaoli was wearing a pink raincoat, and stood beside the fence with her mud-splashed Fenghuang standing. "Little Li, is that you?" Xiaoli didn't answer, but looked at Lin Hong who was still standing in the distance behind Li Xiangnan. Li Xiangnan also looked back and smiled unnaturally.But Lin Hong glanced at Li Xiangnan and Xiaoli with a very calm and understanding gaze, then turned and went back to school. "Xiao Li, how did you find this place?" Li Xiangnan asked.

Xiaoli looked at Li Xiangnan: "I'm going to the rest house without you." Her voice contained a kind of resentment that she tried her best to restrain. Li Xiangnan's heart suddenly moved, he smiled: "I'm going to the rest house right now. Will you go with me?" Xiao Li stood there motionless.After a while, she pushed into the car and walked side by side with Li Xiangnan, "Did you know Lin Hong when you were in Beijing?" she asked. "She and I used to be classmates at the same school." Li Xiangnan replied. Xiao Li was silent for a while: "You planned to take her to jump the queue, right?"

"Who did you hear from?" Li Xiangnan was a little surprised. "I made a long-distance call yesterday." "Ask who?" "Then don't worry about it." Xiaoli lowered her head and remained silent. Li Xiangnan looked at her and fell silent.The mud underfoot croaked and croaked.It happened too quickly and too clearly.Xiaoli showed her love for herself so unabashedly.Li Xiangnan felt both masculine pride and danger at the same time.This is the youngest daughter of the first secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, and she is such a powerful little "politician". If this matter is handled carelessly, it will lead to its own political crisis.

If he loves Xiaoli, the problem may be simple; if he doesn't, he must carefully manage the relationship and develop friendship.But in fact, he didn't have time to think about Xiaoli other than liking her.Now, Xiaoli's attitude towards Lin Hong clarifies another question: what attitude will she have towards Lin Hong?It was a complex question that he couldn't answer or even face right now.He now needs to handle relationships with the sophistication of a statesman. He said to Xiaoli humorously: "You have enough means to inquire about the news, and you have found out the details of the county party secretary."

"The secretary of the county party committee can't understand?" Xiaoli said angrily, but there was a hint of naughtiness on her face, "If I want to know something, I can always find out." "Then you won't be a female KGB." Li Xiangnan laughed loudly, it was the county party secretary teasing a young man.He found that Xiaoli's mood is easy to change. "My childhood dream was to be a female spy." "Want to be a female spy?" Li Xiangnan was a little surprised, and he exaggerated this surprise in his expression. "Go to a foreign country to spy on intelligence."

"This is a boy's personality. Why don't you want to be a female spy now?" Li Xiangnan said. "That's because I don't want to. If I really want to achieve a goal, I must achieve it." "What do you want to achieve now, to be a great writer?" "I don't know if I have the perseverance to endure hardship." "Isn't that contradicting what you just said?" "I mean a purpose. Anyway, if I want to take revenge, I must take it to the end! If I want to get something, I have to get it." Xiao Li said a little fiercely.This fierceness and her lively and cuteness are simply not the same person.

"What if someone gets in your way?" "Then I have to find a way to get rid of him." Li Xiangnan's heart was shocked, his terrifying character.He decided not to talk about such a scary topic anymore: "Do you see this river?" He pointed to the rushing river water in the rain, "I used to play in this river when I was a child." Xiaoli suddenly became happy: "You were in Chencun when you were young, right? I heard from my uncle. Did you know how to swim then?" "No, I'm flopping around in it when the water is shallow." "Let's go swimming together someday." Xiaoli said enthusiastically, "Swim down this river for 40 miles, and you will reach Guancun Lake."

"I can't do it right away. I, the secretary of the county party committee, swim with a girl. People in Guling will think I'm crazy." "Then let's take some food by bike and go to Guancun. Otherwise, I'll find a jeep and I can drive." Xiaoli said excitedly. The dry rest has arrived.The brick wall is very large, covering an area of ​​tens of acres.Enter through the gate, facing a small auditorium.Behind the auditorium are rows of bungalows.In addition to Guling County, some retired cadres in the region also live here.Li Xiangnan and Xiaoli parked the car under the eaves of the reception room, and they entered the compound.There are two bungalows next to the auditorium, which are entertainment rooms, and a few lights are dimly lit inside.They opened the door and went in.On a rainy day, the lights in the house are also very dark.There are several folding square tables next to a ping-pong table, and a dozen or so retired cadres are sitting at the tables lazily playing poker, with cigarettes smoking lazily in one hand.Someone looked at the cards in their hands while slowly sipping tea.Seeing Li Xiangnan coming in, everyone stood up.

"Secretary Li is here?" people greeted.They sincerely welcome all visitors.It's too dull in the rest house. "Everyone sit down." Li Xiangnan said hastily, "I'm just here to come and see what difficulties and needs you have in life, and help you with some logistics." "What's the need? It's better to repair the road at the gate. It's hard to go out when it's raining." Someone said. "Just now I have heard that the masses have reported it for you, and it must be resolved as soon as possible." Li Xiangnan couldn't help but glance at Xiaoli as he spoke.Xiaoli didn't care about this sentence, she didn't expect Lin Hong.

"We've been talking about it for almost a year, and the tea can't be cooled as soon as people leave." A fat retired cadre said in a loud voice. Li Xiangnan smiled: "As soon as people leave, the tea will be cold. That's an old saying. Now, when people leave, the tea can't be cold, it has to be hot. Socialism must focus on socialist human feelings." Everyone laughed and sat down.Many people knew Xiao Li, and chatted and laughed with Xiao Li.People surrounded Li Xiangnan, chatting with each other for a while. "You have the biggest difficulty and need, but you didn't mention it." Li Xiangnan laughed.

Everyone in the room looked at each other, a little dazed. "The real difficulties have turned into complaints. Talk about it below, not above." Li Xiangnan continued, "When I pushed the door just now, I heard someone leaning back on the back of the chair, sorting cards and playing the key, saying: 'Let's I will confess it thoroughly in my lifetime.' Right?" Someone smiled, and the atmosphere was very harmonious. "Many of our old comrades have worked all their lives and left their jobs. They were not allowed to raise fish, grow flowers, or cook at home. Some of them lost their hair gray after being idle for a year. Isn't it? No matter how tired you are at work, you are very energetic ;Once retired, people are getting old and sick.” Everyone was happy, and then sighed.The room fell silent. Li Xiangnan said: "The importance of letting young and middle-aged cadres take over is understood by all the old comrades. They are not afraid that no one will take care of them when they retire. What they are most afraid of is that they will have nothing to do after retirement. Let you take care of these five things all day long. Fourteen playing cards, you're all pretty boring, aren't you?" "What you said speaks to our hearts." Someone said with emotion.He raised the poker cards in his hand and slapped them on the table: "I don't know what to do with this from morning till night." "This is a common ideological burden for veteran cadres." Li Xiangnan said, "In the future, more and more retired cadres will be a big problem. On the other hand, the work experience of veteran cadres is a large amount of wealth that our society should not waste. So I I would like to ask you all to figure out how to solve this problem together. I have a general idea." "Tell me." Everyone looked at him with interest. "We should look for various ways to enable retired cadres to continue to play their obligatory and non-staff roles outside the government and within the society." "What is a supernumerary role?" A person asked strangely. "Non-staff, that is, outside the establishment." Another person said. "Yes." Li Xiangnan continued, "Everyone can raise ideas in this regard. I propose two specific proposals to attract ideas. One, in the future, I, and possibly other members of the Standing Committee of the County Party Committee, will come to discuss with comrades twice a month One is to report the work to you, and the other is to ask you to make suggestions. As for you, if you have time, you can pay more attention to all aspects of the ancient mausoleum. I proposed it to the county party committee. I hope everyone will be my teacher. I am young and inexperienced, so I will hold a meeting to raise opinions and suggestions.” Everyone laughed. "There is another one. Our Guling County plans to open up a tourist area around Jinguang Temple, and we will build a sanatorium there. At that time, comrades can go there to recuperate, and they can serve as voluntary consultants and non-staff administrators for the Tourism Bureau and the Garden Bureau. , non-staff tour guides, even if they help plant trees and green things. Do you think this is good?" "Okay." People said enthusiastically. "Let's explore together," Li Xiangnan said, "If we don't solve this problem, the cadres will be under pressure when they reach 50 and have not yet retired, thinking about their life after retirement. Is it still possible to work at full capacity?" "Now it's all about forty-seven-eight, it's useless." Someone interjected. "When I retire, I'm bored and whining again. Let's turn the negative into the positive." Everyone laughed. "Recently, the county party committee has started a pilot program of party consolidation. In the future, the party will be comprehensively consolidated. Comrades can go around and sue for the common people when they see any unhealthy trends, corrupt practices or corruption." Li Xiangnan said, "This is all It's obligatory, huh?" Everyone smiled. In the dry rest center, I went around the houses again, and when I came out, the rain had subsided a bit.Xiao Li and Li Xiangnan pushed the cart along the muddy road. "Your action is quite clever." Xiaoli said with a smile. "How clever?" Li Xiangnan asked intentionally. "First, stop other people's mouths. You came to be the secretary of the county party committee at a young age, and you have to change shifts and adjust cadres. People don't say that you reject veteran cadres? Now you even respect retired cadres so much, people can say what?" "What about the second?" "Second?" Xiaoli blinked. She said that she didn't think of the second at the first time, but she also got the second when she asked the second. "Second, you have pulled another political force." "What political power?" "It's just these old men. Don't think they have no power, but they still have their mouths. When you talk about it, it's easy to lift a person up and bring someone down. You're pulling yourself A group of voluntary propagandists? My uncle never thought of this trick." "Is there a third trick?" Li Xiangnan was once again moved by the girl's scheming, but smiled casually on his face. "Two are not enough? Are you quite satisfied with yourself?" "What am I satisfied with?" Li Xiangnan shook his head.He only felt that the idea of ​​making retired cadres continue to play a role made some sense.He asked casually, "Who do you often talk about politics like this with?" "In Guling, it's with my uncle, and in the province, it's with my father." "Is your father listening to you?" "Of course I listen. You have to say a few words about me every time you finish listening." "Say what?" "Say I'm full of power and tactics, and I'm not serious." "That's right." Li Xiangnan said. "That's also the score of the provincial party committee secretary on his lips. He is not interested in what I say? If I don't finish, he will urge me to finish." Xiaoli asked: "Do you know my father?" "Your father talked to me a few times." "Does my father appreciate you?" "I don't know." Li Xiangnan shook his head. "He must appreciate you, he loves talent." "What talent do I have?" "I think you have." Xiaoli said, glanced at Li Xiangnan, and smiled mischievously.I don't know what to think of, suddenly my face flushed slightly, I lowered my head and didn't speak. This reticence made Li Xiangnan feel dangerous, he changed the subject with a smile: "Why don't you talk to Kang Leduo when you write novels?" "I've talked to him. He's interesting, but I don't like what he's writing." "why?" "Too board." "Compared to him, I am much stricter and more serious." Li Xiangnan laughed. "But I like being with you." "Then I will teach you a lesson every day." Li Xiangnan teased like an elder, wanting to increase the age gap. "I'm not afraid of you." Xiaoli looked up at Li Xiangnan.That gaze speaks. "Okay, this road is ready to ride, let's ride it." Li Xiangnan waved his hand, and the two of them got on the bike and rode towards the county town in the light rain.