Chapter 16 Chapter Sixteen

After chatting for a while, Aunt Yu said: "Xiao Zhu, please do me a favor and help me to lie down. I asked someone to help me sit up just now, and I have to ask someone to help me lie down later. It's not very good." Zhu Huaijing hurriedly got up to help Aunt Yu.As soon as he touched Aunt Yu's body with his hand, he was startled suddenly and almost shivered.Aunt Yu's body was tired and cold, without a trace of life.She was obviously very weak, and as soon as she lay down, sweat was breaking out on her forehead.Zhu Huaijing was careful, and when he saw a tissue on the bedside, he pulled one to wipe off Aunt Yu's sweat.Aunt Yu seemed to be touched, her face turned red.She asked Zhu Huaijing's age, and said that if she married early, her son would be as old as Zhu Huaijing.Zhu Huaijing knew that it was her sadness, so he just smiled and avoided the topic.

Aunt Yu said: "Xiao Zhu, you go back, it's almost twelve o'clock?" Zhu Huaijing nodded and said, "Okay, what do you want for lunch?" Aunt Yu's face darkened slightly, and she said, "Xiao Wu will send it." Zhu Huaijing got up and said, "Aunt Yu, you should rest well, don't worry, and recover from your illness. I will come to see you another day." Zhu Huaijing came out.He finally didn't take out the five thousand yuan.At the moment when he helped Aunt Yu to lie down just now, he faintly felt that this woman might not be important to her husband.Then just bring a flower basket to have a look.

Zhu Huaijing walked out of the hospital gate, passing by the stall where he bought the flower basket just now, and overheard a woman bargaining, and finally bought the same flower basket as his for 60 yuan.He thought he had suffered a loss of twenty yuan, and felt unhappy.Suddenly, I remembered that I originally had to spend 5,000 yuan, but only paid 80 yuan to pay the job.Thinking of this, he felt relieved, and felt as if he had made a profit. Zhu Huaijing hadn't had time to settle the little bear's request.It seems that there is nothing to do today, so he just wants to invite Zeng Li to get together tonight, and by the way, invite Li Mingxi, and ask Yuqin to accompany him.As soon as he got to work in the afternoon, he called Yuqin to discuss the matter.Yuqin said to leave it with her.He thinks it's not good to spend all the money on Yuqin, besides, Zeng Li and Li Mingxi are very casual with him, he just needs to find a decent shop.So I decided to put it in a small restaurant diagonally opposite the Longxing Hotel.

Unexpectedly, he had just notified Zeng and Li. Fang Mingyuan called and said that Mayor Xiang and their ashes would arrive at four o'clock in the afternoon. Mayor Pi would go to the airport to meet him and asked him if he was free. Let's go together. Zhu Huaijing felt that since he wanted to attend the mayor's memorial service.It would be inappropriate to have a drink with friends immediately in the evening.He had no choice but to call Yuqin and the three of them again, saying that they would meet again another day, and explained the whole story.Yuqin and Li Mingxi didn't say anything, but Zeng Li sighed greatly, saying that Zhu Huaijing still had the heart of an ancient gentleman, which is rare in today's officialdom.

After Zhu Huaijing answered the phone, he went upstairs to the mayor's office.Fang Mingyuan smiled silently, beckoning him to sit in.Seeing Fang Mingyuan like this, Zhu Huaijing knew that Mayor Pi was working inside at the moment, so he came in carefully and sat down.Fang Mingyuan said softly: "Just sit here for a while, the time is almost up, we will go down together later. The memorial service will be held as soon as we come back. I have another event to invite you, and I will talk to you later." Zhu Huaijing asked, "What's the matter? So mysterious?" Fang Mingyuan poked his mouth inside, then shook his head again.Zhu Huaijing knew it must be something inconvenient to talk about here, so he didn't ask.The two were talking softly when Mayor Pi opened the door and came out.Zhu Huaijing hurriedly stood up and said, "Hello, Mayor Pi."

Mayor Pi said kindly, "Little Zhu? Sit down. We'll go to the airport to pick up the mayor later. You should go too." Zhu Huaijing nodded quickly and said yes.Mayor Pi handed over several approved documents to Fang Mingyuan, explained a few words, and went back inside.The two continued chatting. Soon Secretary-General Liu came in, saw Zhu Huaijing here, nodded and smiled at him, knocked on the door inside Mayor Pi, and went in.After a while, Mayor Pi and Secretary Liu came out together.Mayor Pi said, "Xiao Zhu, let's go together." Secretary Liu also said, "Yes, Huai Jing, let's go together."

When I went downstairs, I saw more than 20 cars neatly parked in Pingli, and there were some solemn people standing beside each car.Fang Mingyuan stepped forward to open the car door for Mayor Pi.Mayor Pi did not greet his comrades enthusiastically as usual, but lowered his head and slowly got into the car.The others got into the car without making a sound.Secretary Liu got into his car.Fang Mingyuan pulled Zhu Huaijing and told him to get into Mayor Pi's car.Fang Mingyuan sat in the front seat by himself, and Zhu Huaijing could only sit side by side with Mayor Pi in the back. He felt that this was inappropriate, but before he had time to think about it, he walked around the front of the car.But when he walked past the front of the car, he suddenly felt unnatural, as if he was in the spotlight.He suddenly realized that he had made an etiquette error when he was nervous.According to the rules, he should go around from the rear of the car.rather than the front.He opened the car door and saw Mayor Pi sitting at one end of the sofa, he didn't turn his face to greet him.He regretted getting in the car a little bit.

Along the way, Mayor Pi didn't say a word, and no one in the car spoke.Zhu Huaijing thought that these people might be secretly laughing at his ignorance. When we arrived at the airport, the person in charge of the airport had already greeted us there.Everyone just shook hands and didn't talk much.After exchanging greetings, a lady came over and led everyone into the VIP room.Not long after sitting down, someone gave each of them a black gauze. After a while, the flight arrived, and Mayor Pi and his party went to the apron by car.A military band has long been there in formation.The military band played mourning music only after the other guests got off the plane.Deputy Secretary-General Wei slowly walked out of the window holding the urn, but no one else came out.Suddenly heard crying, Zhu Huaijing looked back and saw that it was the mayor's wife and his children crying.He guessed that it must be the mayor's ashes.Mayor Pi, together with the mayor's son, supported the mayor's wife, and went forward to take the urn.The lady touched the urn and wept bitterly.Mayor Pi comforted her and sent her to the car.

At this time, other talents came out holding the urn.The family members of more than a dozen people cried together, and the crying suddenly shook the sky.The first one is the ashes of Secretary-General Gu, followed by the ashes of the Minister of Finance, then the President of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, and lastly the ashes of the mayor's secretary Gong Yongsheng.First the department-level cadres, and then the department-level cadres.Department-level cadres are also listed in order of seniority. It was the first time in Zhu Huaijing's life that he saw so many people die, he was shocked, a burst of grief came to his heart, and his eyes became astringent.At this time, Fang Mingyuan pulled his hand, leaned over his head and said, "Mayor Pi's second son is going to the United States, and Mayor Pi wants to invite a few people around him to get together at home. The memorial service is over, let's go together. "

The crying was so loud that no one could hear what they said.Zhu Huaijing guessed that this was what Fang Mingyuan had mysteriously talked to him about in the office, so he asked, "It's the end of the year, why doesn't he just leave after the Spring Festival?" Fang Mingyuan said: "Mr. Brown just happened to be going back to the United States. Mayor Pi wanted to ask him to take Pi Yong with him so that he could take care of him along the way." The mayor is a great friend.Zhu Huaijing had never met this foreigner, but he had only heard about it from Fang Mingyuan.

After the urns were handed over, everyone got in the car, and the team went straight to the funeral home. The funeral home has already arranged the mourning hall.Mayor Pi and Secretary-General Liu participated in the memorial service for the mayor, and other leaders of the city government and the Secretary-General attended the memorial service for the other deceased.Zhu Huaijing and Fang Mingyuan were of course by Mayor Pi's side.Nowadays there are many meetings, and they are long, which is very annoying. Only the memorial service is usually short.Eleven memorial services were held at the same time and ended in less than forty minutes.Because of the proper preparation in advance, there were not too many tidbits at the meeting.It's just that Zhu Huaijing later heard that there was a small episode in the arrangement of the mourning hall.It turns out that the funeral parlor has about thirty mourning halls, but there are only four halls, eight middle halls, and the rest are small halls.According to the long-established practice, the memorial service of municipal leaders can only be held in the hall, the memorial service of department-level cadres and department-level cadres can only be held in the middle hall, and the memorial service of ordinary people is of course held in the small hall.Never before in the history of Jingdu have so many high-level cadres passed away at once like this time, and the Zhongting mourning hall cannot accommodate it.But it is not possible to arrange someone to go to the small hall, so that the family members of the family will have opinions.After repeated research, it was decided to arrange two department-level cadres to go to the hall.This is also like the practice of using cadres today, you can only go up but not down.But you can't arrange anyone to go to the hall casually, and you have to rank seniority.Therefore, the memorial service for Secretary-General Gu and the Minister of Finance was exceptionally arranged in the hall, which comforted their families. After everyone left the mourning hall, some people collected the black gauze.Zhu Huaijing is still working as Mayor Pi's car return agency.He learned his lesson and calmly walked around from behind the car and got into the car.Mayor Pi still did not speak.Several people sat in the car without saying a word for a while, and Mayor Pi suddenly asked: "Xiao Zhu, what did your friend named Yuan say to you?" Zhu Huaijing knew that Fang Mingyuan must have passed the words to Mayor Pi, but he didn't know if Mayor Pi and the driver were very casual, so he didn't repeat Yuan Xiaoqi's words, but said cryptically: "Yes, you came from Jingyuan that day. As soon as he left, Yuan Xiaoqi told me that. What he said was very mysterious, and I found it strange, so I immediately called Fang Mingyuan and told him." Mayor Pi raised his hand to touch his shiny hair, and said thoughtfully: "Yes, mysterious..." His tone was very light, as if he was talking to himself, and the falling sound almost turned into a sigh.Perhaps the conversation just now was too cryptic, the atmosphere infected everyone, and it was inconvenient for anyone to say anything more.Zhu Huaijing suddenly felt that the air in the car seemed to be thinner, and couldn't help but take a few deep breaths.But he took a deep breath quietly, lest others think he was nervous and looked petty.He disliked the warmth of the car air conditioner as much as he disliked the enthusiasm expressed by the professional smiles of the waitresses. Fang Mingyuan was very good at coming, seeing that everyone was silent, he said: "Play some music, it's easy." "Oh, yes, put on some music." Mayor Pi agreed. Fang Mingyuan took a cassette casually and played music.It happened to be the episode of the TV series "Winning Eyebrows". This song already has a special meaning in Zhu Huaijing's heart.He squinted his eyes slightly, as if he felt the voice of a fairy.But at this moment, the Yuqin in his mind is extraordinarily graceful and elegant. The car stopped at the office building, Fang Mingyuan quickly got out of the car and opened the door for Mayor Pi.When Mayor Pi got up and got off the car, he said, "Xiao Zhu, let's go play with Xiao Fang!" Mayor Pi said it very casually, as if he suddenly remembered it.Zhu Huaijing hurriedly said yes, thank you.But Mayor Pi may not have heard what he said, because the leader got out of the car while talking. Fang Mingyuan sent Mayor Pi upstairs, and Zhu Huaijing went into his office.I looked at my watch, it was almost time to get off work.He was going to the Mayor Pi's house for some reason, when Fang Mingyuan came down, came in and asked Zhu Huaijing, "How do you go?" Zhu Huaijing said, "What do you think? I'm not afraid of your jokes. I have never participated in an event of this size, and I don't understand the market." Fang Mingyuan said: "I know there are a few more people participating, but they are all big bosses. We can't compare with them, but at least we have this number." After he finished speaking, he stretched out his right hand and gestured with five fingers. Zhu Huaijing asked, "Five hundred yuan?" Fang Mingyuan laughed dumbly, and said, "Five hundred? You really don't know much. I said at least five thousand!" Zhu Huaijing was taken aback and said, "Five thousand yuan?" Fang Mingyuan said: "Don't you think about what grade this is? They didn't invite anyone else, they only invited a few people who are usually very casual with him." Of course Zhu Huaijing understood what Fang Mingyuan said: it is your honor to be invited by Mayor Pi.But he had already sent 20,000 yuan, and if he sent another 5,000 yuan this time, it would be a waste of money.But he didn't know what to say, so he just smiled and said, "Okay, as you said, we are five thousand yuan each." Fang Mingyuan said: "Why don't we make a red envelope together. I have prepared 10,000 yuan. If you don't have any money on hand now, I will put it first." Zhu Huaijing was very grateful that Fang Mingyuan was such a good friend, and hurriedly said, "Thank you. I happen to have about five thousand yuan on hand, so I won't bother you." So Zhu Huaijing found a piece of red paper and wrote "Fang Mingyuan, Zhu Huaijing congratulations." He took out another 5,000 yuan and handed it to Fang Mingyuan.Fang Mingyuan also counted out five thousand dollars and put them together.Fang Mingyuan put the red envelope into his arms, and Zhu Huaijing felt his chest being pulled by something, almost aching.He planned to take the 5,000 yuan to visit Secretary-General Liu's wife, but he finally didn't take it out.After saving this expense, he only regarded it as earning 5,000 yuan, but who knows that what is destined not to belong to him does not belong to him after all.Although he was reluctant in his heart, there was a smile on his face, as if immersed in great happiness.He looked at Fang Mingyuan, his eyes seemed to be full of gratitude.Indeed, with the help of this dear friend, he was so appreciated by Mayor Pi so quickly. The two talked for a while, and when the colleagues had almost left work, they went to Mayor Pi's house together.As soon as he entered the door, Aunt Wang greeted him warmly and said welcome.Pi Yong poured tea and handed him cigarettes.Aunt Wang asked Pi Yong to greet him politely, and went into the kitchen to get busy.She said Xiao Ma was too busy alone. Several guests have arrived.I have met three of them before, Wu Yunhong, the boss of Huafeng Group, Gou Minggao, the boss of Jingda Securities Company, and Shu Jie, the boss of Kangcheng Group.Everyone shook hands one by one, and there were two Zhu Huaijing who did not know each other, but Fang Mingyuan was an acquaintance, so he went and said, "This is Director Yan of the Public Security Bureau." He then introduced Zhu Huaijing: "This is the Finance and Trade Department of the Government Office." Comrade Zhu Huaijing, director of the department." Zhu Huaijing hurriedly stretched out his hands to shake hands with Director Yan, and said a long time.It can be said that he has admired Director Yan for a long time.The director's name is Yan Shangming, and he often shows his face on TV, but he didn't wear a police uniform today, and he lacked the evil spirit in his impression, so he didn't recognize it for a while. Fang Mingyuan introduced another one: "This is the owner of the Flying Man Garment Company..." Before Fang Mingyuan finished his introduction.The boss hurriedly said: "My surname is Bei, Bei Danian. Please take care of Director Zhu." After he finished speaking, he handed over his business card.Zhu Huaijing took it over and took a look, but saw it was: Pei Danian.This garment company is a well-known private enterprise in Jingdu, and Pei Danian is considered a well-known figure in Jingdu.Zhu Huaijing had heard stories about Boss Pei a long time ago, and as soon as he met today, he guessed that those interesting stories must be true.It turns out that "Pei" has the same pronunciation as "compensation". People call him Boss Pei, and he always thinks that he is the boss of compensation, a boss who specializes in losing money.He is very jealous of others calling him that, and he often mispronounces the word on purpose.There are many jokes about his surname. It is said that a college student went to his place to apply for a job. When he entered the door, he said, "Hello, Boss Pei." His face darkened immediately, and he corrected him: "My surname is Bei. It reads Baby's Bei. "The college student felt strange, thinking how can there be someone who can't even pronounce his own surname correctly?He wondered: "I'm sorry, maybe Mr. Pei's hometown dialect is pronounced Pei, and the standard pronunciation should be Pei, which is the same sound as the compensation." Now Mr. Pei became even more unhappy, and waved his hand and said, "Okay, okay. Yes, you are willing to pay for it when you go home. Our company is a very rich company, and we need people who can make money for the company." The college student suddenly realized.He resentfully said: "Okay, your surname is Bei. Those who are unlucky to memorize can also memorize it." The college student slammed the door and left.Zhu Huaijing felt that this story was obviously romantic and not entirely credible.But Mr. Pei doesn't like people pronouncing his surname in a standard way, I'm afraid it's absolutely true.At this time Fang Mingyuan smiled mysteriously at Zhu Huaijing, which further confirmed his guess. Everyone was exchanging pleasantries, Gou Minggao said: "I remember the last time we met, Director Zhu seems to be the director of the General Affairs Department?" Fang Mingyuan said: "Boss Minggao has a good memory. This time he is tall again, and he will be the director of the Finance and Trade Department." Zhu Huaijing continued to be humble.Gou Minggao said: "Very well, I need you, Director Zhu, to take care of you from now on! Our securities company belongs to you." Everyone came to flatter Zhu Huaijing and ask him to take care of him.But he shook his head again and again, and said with a smile: "I don't want to say a place to flatter you. Where is this place? This is in Mayor Pi's mansion, and everyone is under the leadership of Mayor Pi! Everything must be done in Pishi. Long-term attention, care and support will do!" Everyone said that this is very correct, Mayor Pi has always been very concerned about us.Just as Mayor Pi was saying hello, Aunt Wang came out from inside, looking helpless, and said, "Why hasn't Lao Pi come back yet?" Fang Mingyuan said: "Mayor Pi is too busy. When the incident happened these days, he didn't have time to read a lot of documents. He said to come back after reading the documents, and asked us not to wait for him." Several people said that they could not wait for Pi Shi How long?Of course we have to wait for him to come back for dinner.Too busy, the leader is too busy.The president of the United States is still on vacation normally, and our mayor is so busy.Our leaders are public servants of the people, just different!How can they be as carefree as officials from Western countries? The topic went further and further away, from Chinese leaders to Western officials.Yan Shangming didn't talk much, just echoing everyone with a smile.Fang Mingyuan winked at Zhu Huaijing, and said, "Huaijing, let's go inside to see if we can help." Zhu Huaijing understood and stood up.The two went to the kitchen. Aunt Wang saw her and said, "Sit down, you two?" Fang Mingyuan said, "Do you want us to help?" Aunt Wang came out and stood at the door of the kitchen to greet Fang Zhu and the other two.Fang Mingyuan immediately took out the red envelope and said, "Aunt Wang, this is what Huai Jing and I made up, just to show..." Aunt Wang looked very angry, and waved her hands repeatedly: "You two children, you are so ignorant. It's too far away for Yongyong to go to the United States, so I invite a few random people to sit at home. You two are so polite, Lao Pi doesn't scold you to death." Fang Mingyuan forced the red envelope into Aunt Wang's hand, and said: "Aunt Wang, you and I feel embarrassed. Pi Yong is going to study abroad. Of course we have to express something for such a big event." Aunt Wang had no choice but to accept the red envelope: "You two children, really. Especially Xiao Zhu, you are really outrageous. Don't learn from Xiao Fang, he always looks like this." Zhu Huaijing smiled foolishly.He knew that Aunt Wang meant that he was too polite, and she expressed her intentions twice.Fang Mingyuan heard Aunt Wang's words, but he didn't feel alienated. Instead, he thought that he had a closer relationship with Mayor Pi, and it was right to express his meaning.And Zhu Huaijing hadn't had much contact with Mayor Pi, and he wasn't as close as himself, so it seemed inappropriate to talk about these courtesies. Aunt Wang said that she had nothing to do and invited them to go back for tea.The two happily returned to the living room.They both understood Aunt Wang's meaning according to their own ideas, and they were both in a good mood. At this time, someone knocked on the door, and everyone knew that Mayor Pi had returned, and they got up one after another, ready to greet him.Pi Yong went to open the door, but saw his elder brother Pi Jie coming in.Pijie is tall and burly, taller than Pi Yong.As soon as he entered the door, he took out his leather gloves and said haha: "Welcome friends, brothers." After speaking, he shook hands with everyone very vigorously.While holding Zhu Huaijing's hand, he asked Fang Mingyuan: "Brother Fang, this must be Director Zhu."Fang Mingyuan was obviously used to being casual with Pijie, so he said, "What do you call him Director Zhu? Just call him Brother Zhu." Pijie said, "Yeah, I think so too, but I'm afraid people won't recognize me. Little brother! I would like everyone to be my brother, but I don’t have this blessing.” At this time, Aunt Wang came out and blamed Piglet and said, "As soon as I heard the commotion, I knew it was you who came back. There is no rule, who is your brother? Director Yan, you should call him uncle." Piglet raised his hands to his mother and Director Yan, and said, "Uncle Yan testifies, I never dare to act recklessly in front of you. To be honest, I'm not that afraid of my old man, but I'm afraid of you. Uncle Yan." Director Yan smiled kindly and said: "Sister Wang, don't think that Pijie is a person who is out in the world by himself. He knows the rules and has always respected me." Aunt Wang was very serious, and said to Piglet, "There is something wrong with what you said just now. You behave yourself, why are you afraid of Uncle Yan? Uncle Yan can eat people?" She turned to Yan Shangming again, and said, "Old Yan "Jiejie is not as obedient as his younger brother. He is very wild. I told you a long time ago that you should be strict with him. If you find him doing something shameful outside, you should punish him. " Piglet smiled hippie, and joked: "Mom, please forgive me. You are the leaders here, and I am the common people alone, so don't hold my criticism meeting. I am a law-abiding citizen, and we ordinary people have a hard time. Ah, I'm afraid that you officials will take it out on us if you are unhappy." Everyone laughed. Pei Danian immediately raised his hand and said, "Brother, the real common people are me! The director of the department, the director of the department, and Mr. Wu are also the bosses of state-owned enterprises. What about you, brother? Anyway, the cadres will stay without pay. I’m a person who doesn’t even have a workplace. The person with the most status is me.” Zhu Huaijing stopped Pei Danian from talking, and said, "Boss Bei, don't underestimate yourself. In fact, you are the highest among the people here. Don't you remember that there was a skit in the Spring Festival Gala of CCTV last year? The village chief was the town chief. Above the township head is the county magistrate, above the county magistrate is the governor, and above the governor is the prime minister. So the prime minister is only four ranks higher than the village head. You private enterprise boss can say how big or small the rank is. In terms of the whole city, your The immediate boss is Mayor Pi, and all mayors are only one level older than you. If you look at the whole country, you are directly under the prime minister, so you are only one level lower than the prime minister." Suddenly burst into laughter.Pei Danian scratched his head and ears, his face flushed slightly, but he mocked himself as if nothing had happened: "Director Zhu is laughing at me." Fang Mingyuan felt that Pei Danian was a little embarrassed, so he said seriously: "Huai Jing's words are jokes, but there are deep-seated truths in them. The direction of our state-owned enterprise reform is to establish a modern enterprise system, and the government and enterprises must be separated. An enterprise is an enterprise. It should not pay attention to what level it is, nor should it have any competent department. Bill Gates, the software king, what level do you think he is? But he must be invited as a representative to the summit meeting of the seven western countries! In terms of level, this Isn’t it equivalent to the head of state?” Everyone said it was reasonable, and the level of cadres in the government office is high.Fang Mingyuan said modestly: "Where is it? If you want to say that the theoretical level in this area is still high, he has been engaged in economic research for many years, and he knows everything in his stomach. A casual joke just now revealed a profound theoretical problem. It’s really laughing and cursing, it’s all articles, it’s almost as good as Mr. Lu Xun.” Zhu Huaijing pointed at Fang Mingyuan with a smile and said, "Mingyuan, I didn't offend you just now, you stink of me so much." Aunt Wang persuaded: "Okay, they are all good, young people are all good now." Pei Danian had long since lost his embarrassment, and took over Aunt Wang's words and said: "Yes, yes, they are all good. Those that Mayor Pi appreciates, and those that are not useful? They are all pillars of talent with a bright future." He was flattering Zhu Fanger seat, but looked at Aunt Wang.Others echoed Pei Danian, saying that Mayor Pi cared most about people and valued talented people the most.The topic naturally turned to Mayor Pi's eyes and talents, knowing people and doing good things. Everyone is left to the mayor of Pi and right to the mayor of Pi, and the mayor of Pi knocked on the door and came back.Hulala all got up, smiled and thanked Mayor Pi for their hard work.Mayor Pi shook hands with everyone one by one, saying welcome. But Aunt Wang pretended to be angry and said, "You speak nicely, and you are welcome! I said you are a fake welcome! Otherwise, why did you wait until now to come back? Are you trying to avoid comrades?" Everyone was amused.Mayor Pi also joked: "Have you seen it? You all listen to me when you are outside, but I have to listen to her when you go home. My status is very low! Why doesn't the World Women's Organization come to my house for a live meeting? " At this time the phone rang, and Pei Danian happened to be sitting next to the phone, so he picked up the phone and asked who to call.But he frowned after listening for a while, turned his face and said doubtfully, "It's not like the telecom bureau is urging the phone bill, it's a man's voice speaking a foreign language, without a word of Chinese." After he finished speaking, he was about to put the phone down. Pi Yong hurriedly said, "Don't put the phone down, I'll answer it." Pi Yong ran to pick it up, then turned to his father and said, "It's Mr. Brown's, Dad." "You say hello to him." Pi Yong translated and turned back to say: "Mr. Brown said thank you and your government for all the help to their company. He expressed his gratitude on behalf of their company. He also thanked you for your personal care. He and his My family would like to express my heartfelt thanks to you.” Mayor Pi said: "You tell Mr. Brown that we appreciate that he will continue to increase investment in Jingdu. Our foreign policy will not change. If there is any change, our policy will only get better and better. .” After Pi Yong translated it, he listened for a while and said, "Mr. Brown said that his travel schedule has finally been settled. He plans to leave for Beijing on the 20th and fly to New York from Beijing on the 21st. He told us specifically." After Pi Yong answered the phone, everyone intentionally moved on to other topics, and no one was ashamed to look at Pei Danian.Pei Danian knew that he had made a fool of himself just now, so he simply humored himself and said: "Oh, it's still not good if you don't learn foreign languages. I always confuse English letters with Popo Mofo. I know I often make a fool of myself in the company, but those The recruited college students dare not laugh at me." Mayor Pi smiled and said, "Xiao Pei, don't talk about you! I have learned English, and I can't speak a whole sentence now. I know that when I speak English, it must be like listening to Japanese people saying 'Your, what? work.' Mayor Pi has always called him Xiao Pei instead of Xiao Bei, maybe he should pay in front of the leaders, he seems to have forgotten the taboo.He seemed very happy, and said: "Who doesn't know the level of Mayor Pi? You are too modest." Meals have been set up in the dining room in the chat room, and Xiao Ma came to invite everyone to dinner.Please be polite and take your seats according to your dignity.Xiao Ma opened Moutai, poured it into a glass jug, and poured it for everyone one by one.Mayor Pi glanced up and asked casually, "Have you arrived yet?" "It's all here." Fang Mingyuan replied. Zhu Huaijing always thought that Secretary-General Liu would be there, but Mayor Pi did not invite him.This made Zhu Huaijing even more upset.He couldn't help but secretly weighed his position in Mayor Pi's mind.He thought that the five thousand yuan was not given to Secretary Liu's wife, which was completely correct.Even if Secretary-General Liu really treats him well, he can only be sent to the position of director.And that mission has already been accomplished.He wants to go up another level, get a deputy department and a department level, the key depends on Mayor Pi.As long as Secretary-General Liu doesn't get in the way, he'll be fine.So he thought that the basic policy for Secretary-General Liu in the future should be: don't offend, get closer, and give less gifts. Mayor Pi was very happy today, smiling and toasting frequently.He respected Yan Shangming first, and then the bosses.Usually everyone respects the mayor, but today it's the other way around.Everyone felt a little flattered, and respectfully clinked glasses with Mayor Pi with their cups in both hands, then raised their heads and drank upside down.Mayor Pi just dipped his mouth into the wine glass, meaning nothing.Only Yan Shangming was a little more flat, maybe because he was older and he was the head of the department. Mayor Pi's face was red and he laughed loudly.Zhu Huaijing usually noticed that Mayor Pi was either smiling or dark.There was no transition between the smiling face and the black face, and the smiling face suddenly became as cold as ice, like building blocks built by children, colorful and very beautiful, but they fell down in an uproar as soon as they were built.The subordinates are always on tenterhooks between his smiling face and black face, and are at a loss.Zhu Huaijing was considered close to Mayor Pi, and he only understood that often dark face as a kind of due majesty, so he didn't feel much fear.But after all, Zhu Huaijing wanted to see Mayor Pi's smiling face often, as long as he saw Mayor Pi, he always smiled first.Mayor Kepi often has a very serious face.Zhu Huaijing was nostalgic for watching Mayor Pi play mahjong in Jingyuan that night.The Mayor of Pi always had a smile on his face. Although he frowned at times, he might be thinking.Sometimes Zhu Huaijing even thought to himself, why do the leaders always have dark faces?Smile more, you will be happy, and others will be happy, which is at least good for your health!But he knows that he can't give lessons to the leaders, and he can't pretend to be smart in front of the leaders. He just needs to say "yes" a few more times.Mayor Pi was so happy today, it moved Zhu Huaijing. "Little Zhu, here's a toast to you!" Mayor Pi raised his cup to Zhu Huaijing, his eyes were full of smiles, Mayor Pi had already saluted everyone else, only Zhu Huaijing and Fang Mingyuan did not. How can there be any reason for Mayor Pi to toast?Zhu Huaijing didn't know whether it was panic or excitement, he was almost confused, and hurriedly said: "How dare you! Let me respect you." Mayor Pi smiled and said, "It doesn't matter who is toasting whom, the important thing is that everyone enjoys themselves. You just drank the glass of wine." As usual, Zhu Huaijing held the wine glass with both hands and lightly touched Mayor Pi, before drinking it.Fang Mingyuan was clever, and before Mayor Pi could speak, he hurriedly stood up with his wine glass in both hands, and respectfully said: "Mayor Pi, Xiao Fang toasts you!" Mayor Pi laughed and said, "Today is really out of order, Usually it is Xiao Fang who saves me, cheers for me and others. Today is good, fire at me." After finishing speaking, he raised his glass and drank.Xiao Fang didn't dare to let Mayor Pi do it first, said something offending in a hurry, and drank a toast before Mayor Pi. It's a custom in Jingdu, as soon as everyone comes to the wine table, they will talk nonsense after a few polite words, but this is drinking at home, and besides, it's not the same level as the mayor or ordinary people, so everyone has to refrain from talking. .You can't drink without talking.Today is Mayor Pi Yong's happy event, and it is necessary to say some words of congratulations and flattery.But after talking, it's all about Mayor Pi. Mayor Pi just smiled, waved his hands modestly, and didn't say much.Everyone flattered Mayor Pi more and more.Zhu Huaijing was already grateful to Mayor Pi, but today, in this atmosphere, he drank a few more glasses of wine, feeling easily agitated, and full of words about how wise Mayor Pi is.Mayor Pi was good at pointing at Zhu Huaijing, and said with a smile, Xiao Zhu, you also joined in the fun.Hearing this, Zhu Huaijing became even more excited, and his body became hot.The meaning of Mayor Pi's words is very clear, that is to say, Zhu Huaijing and him don't need to see each other.Zhu Huaijing smiled, stopped speaking flattery, and just listened to other people putting a high hat on Mayor Pi.In his drunkenness, the image of Mayor Pi in his eyes grew taller and taller, and he almost needed to look up.At this moment, Zhu Huaijing admired Mayor Pi very much.Later, Zhu Huaijing recalled his feelings at the wine table that day, and suddenly had an epiphany like a philosopher: No wonder China is prone to personality cults! Mayor Pi respected everyone, like scolding or joking, looked at Piglet and said: "You usually drink and drink, let's see what you can do today, and take good care of all the guests!" Piglet salivated and smiled, looked at his mother again, and said, "It's not fair! Today is a good thing for my brother, let me drink with you, but you still have to scold me." Pi Yong hurriedly cupped his hands: "Please brother, I don't drink at all!" Piglet began to toast one by one, of course Yan Shangming first.Yan Shangming said that he was too strong to drink, so he only drank half a glass.Piglet refused, saying that he would have a drink if he wanted to.Mayor Pi put on a straight face and scolded Piglet for not understanding the rules. Seeing this situation, Yan Shangming had no choice but to say let's have a full glass, but that's all for tonight.It's hard to say that the others only drank half a glass, and they all drank a full glass with Piglet.It seems that Pijie is really huge. After a round of respect, except for the three adults and Pi Yong, the other young people don't say who is respecting whom, just drink it down until some people stop drinking it. .Anyway, tomorrow is Saturday, at worst, I will sleep with him all day.Pei Danian said, "It's hard to say, how can you stop drinking?" Piglet said, "It's fine if someone gets down on the ground." Mayor Pi frowned at Piglet, and said, "Don't put your Bring the noisy routine outside to the house. Well, according to me, the wine must be good, but not intoxicating, and I will drink two bottles, and the total amount will be paid." Several young people were having a drink, Yan Shangming met with Mayor Pi and was talking. After a while, Mayor Pi greeted everyone to proceed, and went into the back room with Yan Shangming to talk.Yan Shangming seemed to be a bit arrogant, and he didn't want to be polite to everyone, so he just followed Mayor Pi in.Aunt Wang greeted and went in too.Of course it was inconvenient for Pi Yong to leave, so he just sat here dryly and watched everyone's excitement.Xiao Ma was still standing on the side pouring wine, Zhu Huaijing felt that it was not appropriate to stay here for too long, so he said: "It's getting late, and the wine is almost ready. The guests leave and the Lord is safe, so why don't we just have a glass of reunion wine?" " Piglet raised his hand and slapped Zhu Huaijing's shoulder hard, saying: "Brother Zhu, you are not mean, this is the first time for us to drink together!" He joked: "Besides, I also drank two bottles of wine.老头子得指示啊！我是不怕违背他的指示，你们可得遵守啊！”说罢又在朱怀镜肩上重重拍了一板，豪气冲天的样子。朱怀镜肩头被拍得生痛，心头却很畅快。 皮杰越是喝酒，花就越多，嗓门也越高：“兄弟们，我在外面自己闯天下，沾不了老头子得光，靠的就是些难兄难弟。搭帮兄弟们啊，老弟我才万难混了碗饭吃。老头子，他不断掉我的饭碗，就算开恩了。他廉他的政，我没意见，可也别端我的饭碗是不是？” 这时王姨出来了，朝皮杰使了眼色，压着嗓子骂道：“你这是怎么搞的？一喝酒就拿你老子出气！他不该廉政？他是你两兄弟的爸爸，却是全市四千万人的市长！他当市长比当爸爸的责任更大！你喝酒就喝酒，不要左一句老头子，又一句老头子！”王姨说完，不好意思似的朝大家伙儿笑笑，又进去了。 可谁也不为这场面感到尴尬，只说皮市长的确是个难得的好领导，对自己要求严格，对家人要求也严格。皮杰却嘘了一声，调侃道：“莫谈国事！我们喝酒吧。我说过大家平起喝，谁也不抵谁。可我刚才说到搭帮兄弟们，还是得表示下意思。莫笑话我贪杯，我就再敬各位一杯！” 皮杰便又挨个敬了一轮。真是海量啊！真是海量！一片赞叹声。