Chapter 13 Chapter Twelve

fifty-four Tian Manfang got out of the city government building, started her blue Mazda, and just walked about ten meters away, suddenly changed her mind, reversed the car, and walked to Huang Jiangbei's office again. Huang Jiangbei and Xia Zhiyuan were surprised by Tian Manfang's reappearance. "I'm sorry, Mayor Huang, can I say a few more words to you?" Tian Manfang asked frankly.Huang Jiangbei immediately glanced at Xia Zhiyuan.Xia Zhiyuan immediately walked out: "Talk...you talk..." The door is closed. Tian Manfang slowly took off the pair of high-grade crocodile leather gloves imported from Italy, and said apologetically, "Don't bother me, I'll leave for a while, and then come again..." "Say, just talk. But please be brief, morning, There are still several arrangements waiting for me." "Okay, okay..." "Let's talk." "I didn't answer your last question just now because I have concerns." "I think...my question Maybe it was too rash to ask, not the timing." "Your question is indeed very critical and sharp..." "Now are you ready to answer my question?" "Hmm..." "If you have any concerns I don't think it's convenient to talk about it for now, so think about it again." "I...I...I also want to ask you a question..." "Do you want to get my bottom line?" "Some people say that you belong to Vice Governor Tian Man, it was the old man who personally ordered you to come to Zhangtai. Is this statement accurate?" "May I ask you a question? Who are you?" "I'm asking you."

Huang Jiangbei stood up and said sharply, "I'm asking you!" Tian Manfang was startled.She didn't know that Huang Jiangbei would still get angry under such circumstances, and she was a little scared. Huang Jiangbei slowly eased his expression: "Comrade Manfang, don't you know that your question is obviously insulting? Some people are happy that they can be attached to a certain senior leader and become a person of a certain leader , but I think this is an insult to my personality!" "I just want to ask..." "Ask, who is talking nonsense? Is this your concern?" "Not exactly..."

Huang Jiangbei immediately interrupted her and said: "Okay, you don't need to explain, there is no atmosphere for talking today, let's find time to talk about it another day..." Huang Jiangbei took out his long-term work experience on construction sites and his background in technology The cheerfulness with which he dealt with the cadres and workers gave Tian Manfang a severe blow.Sure enough, the Deputy General Manager Tian, ​​who always gets a lot of favor in front of people, panicked a little, and hurriedly wanted to explain: "Mayor Huang..." Huang Jiangbei decided not to give her a chance today, so he said: "Comrade Tian Manfang , my patience is only used for those who are sincerely willing to cooperate with me to change Wanfang and Zhangtai's appearance. If not, I will tell you clearly that there is no Huangjiangbei in Zhangtai City, Zhangtai It will still get better day by day, the same principle, Wanfang Company does not have Tian Manfang, it will get better day by day!"

At this moment, the phone on the desk rang.After answering the phone, Huang Jiangbei turned around and asked Tian Manfang: "I'm sorry... where did I just say?" Tian Manfang's eyes were slightly red, and she bowed her head in silence. Huang Jiangbei smiled apologetically, "I...was I too rough just now..." Tian Manfang said: "No, it's my fault... I'm sorry..." Huang Jiangbei stood up: "The vice president of the Asian Development Bank will come to our city tomorrow to discuss investment projects. This morning I made an appointment with some comrades from relevant departments for a preparatory meeting. They called me just now. Let's find time again." Talk..." Tian Manfang resolutely said, "I'll say one more thing, okay?" Huang Jiangbei picked up the file prepared by the secretary and hurried out: "Next time." Tian Manfang took him one step ahead, He shouted: "Mayor Huang, let me say one more thing. Is that okay?" Huang Jiangbei stopped at the door of the office, turned around, and looked at Tian Manfang with great dignity.Tian Manfang shuddered, and said: "The question you raised is too important... I'm not prepared... You let me prepare... Let's talk again at another time... OK? Can you meet me a little longer? Is it time to talk?"

Huang Jiangbei immediately said: "Absolutely. I think we can meet honestly." "That's all right... then I'm leaving... goodbye..." Tian Manfang blushed slightly, picked up her coat and purse, and left in a hurry. At this time, the conference room of the municipal government building was bustling with people, and the large hollow oval conference table was already full of leaders from various district and county bureaus and relevant departments of the municipal government who had come to attend the conference.Huang Jiangbei, who had been delayed for some time, hurried to the meeting room with the file and teacup.Secretary Xiao Gao chased after him and told him to go back and answer the phone. "Who is calling?" Huang Jiangbei asked while still walking towards the conference room. "I don't know, the other party refuses to say his name." Xiao Gao said. "Hey, it's pretty cool, ignore him." "She seems to be in a hurry..." "We'll talk about it later." "She...is a girl..." "What's wrong with the girl? You young man, like this You can't be a secretary." Huang Jiangbei joked.As soon as he finished speaking, Huang Jiangbei was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly turned around and asked, "Is it a girl or a woman? Is it the voice of Wan Fangtian's deputy general manager?" It's not her." Huang Jiangbei raised his eyebrows: "Young? The voice is a little hoarse? Standard mandarin? The tone is soft?" "Yes...it seems like this..." Huang Jiangbei suddenly became anxious: "Have you hung up?"

Xiao Gao replied: "No..." Huang Jiangbei hurriedly turned around and rushed towards the office. He guessed that the call was from Ge Ping. Fifty-five It was indeed Ge Ping.She was trapped at the provincial capital train station.Just now, she squeezed in front of the smoky ticket gate, trying to inquire about the train number and time to Beijing, but someone took away the wallet in which she put the money.When she realized something and chased after the ticket office, the suspicious man had already disappeared without a trace.She went to the station police station to report the case, and the security police at the police station asked her to leave her home address and work unit.She had no choice but to make up a nonsense, and hurriedly left the two security guards who were naughty but kind-hearted, and left the place that she wanted to rely on but couldn't for the time being.She was hungry and had only her last few dollars with her.At the entrance of the snack bar on Neihe Wharf Street, the red oiled elbows boiled in a big pot are emitting a lot of heat and a lot of aroma.She hesitated for a long time, and finally decided to use the last few dollars to make a phone call.She wants to ask for help.She couldn't stand it anymore, she couldn't swim in the crowd of migrant workers at the train station anymore.She can no longer listen to this dialect, and smell the body odor and sweat of those who have not bathed for months, and it is mixed with smoke oil and tartar and garlic and green onions and leek pies and fried small The stench of fish and boiled sheep's head.They looked at her with strange eyes, and some thought she was doing that, and asked her with a cheeky smile how much it would cost for a shot, did she have a hotel room with a long bag... She couldn't stand it... But after the call was connected, she calmed down when she heard the familiar and friendly voice that could smell the scent of clean shirts and had always placed great hopes on her.flinch?flinch?flinch?Not going to Beijing anymore?That's all?Those who were wronged were wronged, and those who suffered were also suffered.The sun still shines during the day, and the moon still shines at night.Even if there is no sun and moon, what does it have to do with her, a young college graduate?But... Dad... still has her own grievances... She asked herself again and again.She blames herself again and again, she despises herself again and again, and reintegrates herself again and again.She just sobbed softly...

Because of this, no matter how hard Huang Jiangbei pressed on the phone, he didn't get any answer from Ge Ping. "Pingping, what happened? Tell me. No matter what, I will make the decision for you. You can't trust others, can you trust me? You can't solve any problems like this. Be obedient, come back first, your parents and sister Going crazy..." There was still no response, but the soft sobbing on the phone could be clearly heard. "Pingping, let me say it again. I am the mayor of Zhangtai City now. No matter what happens to you, I can make the decision for you. You can come back with confidence. Your father is my most respected teacher. During the three-year natural disaster , my family is so poor, I am so hungry that I can’t even walk, I really don’t have the determination to go to school anymore, your father paid for my tuition, your mother used the rations saved by your whole family, and I insisted on going to school After finishing middle school, there will be Tsinghua undergraduate students and Peking University graduate students. You are clear about these things. Your family’s affairs are my family’s affairs, and your affairs are also my own affairs. In the past, you always called me brother , is there anything you can’t tell my brother who is the mayor now? Pingping, what do you want me to say? Pingping...Pingping..."

With a "click", the phone was hung up.Huang Jiangbei put down the phone in frustration, sat there for a while, picked up the phone again, and asked the city government switchboard to check immediately where the call was made from just now.After a while, the answer came, it was a long-distance call from the province.Huang Jiangbei asked the operator of the municipal government to contact the provincial long-distance station to find out which post office the call was made from. "Please do it quickly." At this time, another phone on the desk rang.Xiaobing's voice came from the phone: "Dad... are you free? I want to see you..." Huang Jiangbei said dumbfoundedly: "My God, where did you go last night? Your mother said that you didn't come back all night Home. You guys...why do you run out so often? Where are you now?" "Don't worry about where I am, can you come out and see me now?" "My good girl, the main leaders of the district and county bureaus in the city I've been waiting for your father for a while, let me talk to them first, and then talk to you sometime, okay? We must meet today. If you want to go home, come to me. Let's have dinner together, like you did when you were young, holding hands to eat Shanghai noodles. Go to class now, okay? Don't worry, I won't tell mom. Okay, see you tonight."

After putting down the phone, he immediately called home again, but no one answered the phone.He put down the phone in a little frustration, and subconsciously cleaned up the paper ashes in the ashtray. Suddenly feeling very tired, he closed his eyes, fell on the leather sofa, and leaned on it for a while.Suddenly he felt something stuck behind him, he folded up and took it out to see that it was a pair of high-end leather women's gloves that Tian Manfang forgot to take away.He casually threw it on the coffee table, but for some reason, he always wanted to look at it again.It is so slender, soft, smooth and delicate, it is really lovely.He couldn't help picking it up again, subconsciously pinching it gently.

At this time, someone knocked on the door.Huang Jiangbei was startled, and quickly covered the glove with a piece of newspaper. It was the secretary Xiao Gao who knocked on the door: "Mayor Huang, everyone is waiting for you." "Okay. I'll go right away." Huang Jiangbei stood up immediately. After Xiao Gao left, Huang Jiangbei quickly opened the newspaper with a self-deprecating smile, locked the pair of soft high-end leather gloves in a drawer, called Shang Bing's work unit, told Shang Bing where his daughter was, and asked her to Don't be too anxious, and then hurried to the meeting room.

fifty six When Jiang Bei called, Mr. Man Feng, whom Xiao Bing hated so much, was sitting next to the phone in Shang Bing's office.He came early in the morning to find Shang Bing.Using Xiaobing's "long-term" observations to describe his behavior today is to "tangle" his mother.There is one thing that Xiaobing read right, Manfeng did come to "tangle" Shang Bing, and recently came to "tangle", but it was not the kind of "men's entanglement with women" that Xiaobing asserted, and it was not the kind of "already entangled". Illegal entanglement of a married woman by a married man".Xiaobing’s conclusion is purely a manifestation of anaphylaxis in a young girl’s budding period. It’s not unreasonable to even say it’s adolescence delusional disorder, but it’s mild. If it’s serious, you must see a psychiatrist or call the youth hotline. The phone or something is also useful.The truth of the relationship between Shang Bing and Man Feng is that Shang Bing has been pestering Man Feng for a long time, but only in the last few days, it has turned into Man Feng pestering Shang Bing.The two of them entangled and entangled, and it had nothing to do with "men and women" or "married and unmarried". It was just for a manuscript of Shang Bing, a manuscript about storm surge theory.To put it bluntly, it is to study the gusts of wind and waves in the sea.But because it took a long time to complete the draft, I have not had time to revise and supplement it in recent years.Shang Bing was worried that its academic value would lag behind.I would like to ask this old classmate from Tsinghua University to make a judgment. If possible, I would like them to "piggyback" and print it into typeface, and leave it in this world in the form of a booklet.Although there are so many books in this world that people can't read them at all, but for Shang Bing, this is the first book, and maybe it will be the last one.If you think it is not possible, please ask your old classmates to "point out" and see where to start to modify and supplement.Before Man Feng was transferred back to Zhangtai, he had been engaged in oceanographic research, and basically never left this world; he could not say that he was well aware of the international research trends and new developments in this area, but he could also be said to be vivid in his memory.He himself has a deep academic foundation and certain attainments in this area, and he is definitely a person who can help.After taking the manuscript and reading it, Man Feng felt that it was indeed "old", but Man Feng still wanted to help.In the words of Shixing, even if there is only one percent hope, one hundred percent effort must be made.He recommended the manuscript to the head of the office, and then to the head of the society, hoping to hear all kinds of opinions, and then discuss with Shang Bing how to revise it.I didn't think there was a big problem here.That day, the editor-in-chief of the publishing house came to him with the manuscript with a suspicious look on his face, and Man Feng was very uneasy, so he asked timidly: "Comrade Shang Bing's manuscript...you have finished reviewing it? Can't you?" No I think the editor-in-chief didn't talk to him about whether the manuscript would work or not, but just asked who the author of this manuscript was.Man Feng said that the author is Shang Bing, an engineer from the Municipal Planning Bureau.The editor-in-chief asked, was it really Shang Bing who wrote it?Man Feng was surprised, and said, who else could it be if it wasn't Shang Bing?What did you hear?In the past two years, there have been a lot of intellectual property lawsuits, but I can definitely vouch for Shang Bing, even if people all over the world are plagiarizing, stealing and printing, she will not do so.I would rather believe that I myself will plagiarize one day than that she will do such a thing.She was the most orthodox of the crowd, the purest of women. "What's her lover's last name?" The editor-in-chief continued to ask. "Huang, Huang Jiangbei." "Which unit does this Huang Jiangbei work in?" "Which unit...it seems...it turns out...that...the deputy head of the construction site of the Sino-American Chemical United Corporation...what have you been doing lately...I haven't heard from her..." "Nerd, recently we have a new mayor in our city, do you know?" "The new mayor? Why? He also wants to publish a book? Can he do it? Ordinary mayors have to ask the secretary to write even the speech. He still has time to write a book? Don't be ridiculous!" "Do you know the name of the new mayor?" "Whatever he likes to call him. Can I care?" "His name is Huang Jiangbei!" "Is there such a coincidence?" "Don't be such a coincidence, hurry up and find out if this Mayor Huang is the husband of your old classmate Shang Bing." "Don't be funny, how is that possible, absolutely impossible. This Huang Jiangbei and I are old classmates. When I was in Tsinghua University, I was a year higher than them, and I was their teacher brother. Huang Jiangbei became the mayor , Why don’t you tell me? At least you have to treat me. I met Shang Bing this afternoon, and she didn’t talk about it at all, it’s impossible. Absolutely impossible.” "You can do it. I have already asked Xiao Zhou from the editor's office to verify that the husband of your teacher sister Shang Bing is the new Mayor Huang." "Huang? Huang..." Man Feng was stunned, and after a long time, he murmured: "These two guys are so uninteresting... Even if Huang Jiangbei becomes the mayor, what does this manuscript have to do with it?" Does it matter?" "Can you be sure that this manuscript was written by Shang Bing?" "That's what Shang Bing told me..." "Let me ask you, what did Shang Bing learn at Tsinghua University?" "architecture." "What aspect of this manuscript is written?" "A linear model theory of unsteady quasi-equilibrium oceanic storm surges." "A person who studies architecture and works in architecture can write a book on oceanography. Is she a fairy?" "It is generally impossible, but it is not absolutely impossible. In the history of science, many examples of the same can be found...for example...". "Don't make an example, let me ask you again, what did Mayor Huang learn in Tsinghua?" "Like me, I studied...geophysics..." "Oceanography is a branch of geophysics, isn't it?" "yes……" "Mayor Huang studied oceanography?" "yes……" "The pen name signed by the author of this manuscript is 'You Gong'. I ask you to remove the yellow characters from the beginning to the end. What is the word?" "Depend on……" "Can you remove a radical from the word Jiang to see what the word is?" "work……" "Now think about it again, who could this Yougong be?" Manfeng was silent.After a while, he asked again, "Is it that important who this Yougong is?" Editor-in-Chief Ding couldn't help but laugh: "Nerd! You are such a nerd! If this manuscript was really written by Mayor Huang, no matter whether it is up to the level of publication or not, you have to spare no expense to publish it for him. You have to publish it quickly. It’s good. If it’s not Mayor Huang’s stuff, I’m sorry. In these years, publishing such academic books costs too much, and they don’t have a very high academic level. So, you have to figure out whether this 'Yougong' is actually Mayor Huang himself. Don't get it wrong, you offended the mayor. Do you understand the stakes here? Don't call me vulgar, this is also Let the money force you." So Man Feng immediately went to find Shang Bing, turned around and desperately "wrangled" Shang Bing to find out who this "You Gong" was.But Shang Bing refused to say who this "You Gong" was.After learning about the thoughts of the publisher's leaders from Man Feng's mouth, he actually proposed to withdraw the manuscript.She said, "I don't want to rely on Jiangbei's status and position to publish a book. Jiangbei will not agree to do so. I did this without telling Jiangbei, let alone do it like this."Man Feng asked in surprise: "You haven't discussed it with Huang Jiangbei?" Shang Bing said: "He always said that some of his academic viewpoints in this manuscript are outdated, and the verification of some aspects is not perfect..." Man Feng asked Listen, and immediately responded: "Then this manuscript was really written by Huang Jiangbei?" Shang Bing hurriedly said: "No." Man Feng said: "You just said 'he always said what happened to some of his academic views in this manuscript? '...Isn't the meaning very clear?" Shang Bing blushed and hurriedly said: "I didn't say that." Man Feng said: "Don't be a bookworm, it's easy to handle the manuscript of Huang Jiangbei. Our agency leader As I said, as long as it belongs to Mayor Huang, please ask someone to modify it. And the signature issue has been agreed, you don’t have to worry, no matter how big the modification is, it will still only be signed by Huang Jiangbei’s name..." Shang Bing said: " Then Jiangbei will not agree." Man Feng said: "Why are you stupid? Even if you asked the comrade who participated in the revision to sign, he would not sign. Who dares to sign the same book as the mayor? Isn't that Are you asking for embarrassment?" Shang Bing was more determined: "Then I will definitely withdraw the manuscript!" Man Feng's repeated persuasion was useless, so he had to report the truth to the agency leader, who was also anxious and severely criticized him. Make him take the manuscript back.He had no choice but to come to Shang Bing again early. "Junior Sister Shang, let me tell you the truth, I am the one who is responsible for the great task of revising the manuscript for Mayor Huang. What are you worried about? Let me tell you the truth, I really want to do this job. I also have the qualifications to do this job well. Listen to me and finish. First, before returning to Zhangtai City, I have been doing storm surge research. and I am sincerely willing to do this job well for Mayor Huang..." "No...that's even more impossible..." Shang Bing still said so. "Listen! Second, I didn't do this all for you, let alone for Jiangbei. You know I have a disabled son, and my mother has been in poor health for the past two years. In order to take care of them, I gave up my profession , transferred back to Zhangtai, where there is no sea at all, and there is no ocean research, so I changed my job to be such a copy editor. I have no other thoughts about my future, I just want to live in peace and stability I have been in the publishing house for more than half a year, and I haven’t published a book manuscript yet. This is the first job I may do. Whether I can do this first job well is related to whether I can continue to publish in the future. It is my honor to be able to serve the mayor in my first job, and it can be said that I am lucky in my life. I will definitely seize this heaven-sent opportunity, and ask my two old classmates to give me this opportunity, no matter whether the mayor’s surname is Huang or Lan, I will do my best to ensure that each of you is satisfied..." He said holding Put out an agreement and put it in front of Shang Bing, handed the pen to Shang Bing, and asked Shang Bing to sign the agreement on the spot. "No, no, no..." Shang Bing blushed. "Shang Bing, what more do you want from me?" Man Feng cried helplessly.