"Bang!" A heavy sound of closing the door came downstairs, followed by a rapid footsteps of high heels, and a faint sound of a woman crying.

"It's really a headache for our Director Du today." This old-fashioned building was clearly heard upstairs and downstairs. Xie Caigen shook his head and sighed, but his expression was gloating.

Well, it must be Fang Lanlan who went to Du Jinsong's office to make trouble again.

"Du Jinsong is too brave. If he and Fang Lanlan are so clear about it, would he not be afraid that Fang Lanlan's husband will come to him?" Li Rui said in surprise.

"Hehe! What's there to be afraid of? You may not know yet. Fang Lanlan was originally from the countryside, and his man was also a farmer. As early as seven or eight years ago, Du Jinsong had already hooked up with Fang Lanlan, who was a temporary worker at the coal management station when he was the mayor of Qingshanquan Town. Du Jinsong had worked a lot with this woman. He first helped her become a regular household registration, and then became a urban household registration, and later transferred to the coal management bureau. In a blink of an eye, he became a cadre at the stock level. The woman's man was originally a lazy person, and the woman became a cadre and made a lot of money outside. He even transferred the child's household registration. He was happy to see her. If Du Jinsong didn't want his woman now, he might be anxious." Xie Caigen laughed.

Then he asked with a smile: "Although you are considered from Nanqiao, you have heard that what is the most famous thing before our Nanqiao has not yet been discovered? "

"What is it?" Li Rui asked.

"It's a woman, a beautiful woman!" Xie Caigen deliberately lowered his tone and smiled ambiguously.

"Beautiful woman? Hehe! I have never heard of this before." Li Rui smiled.

"From the Northern and Southern Dynasties to the Ming Dynasty, we have not had dozens of concubines here. As long as we come to Suhuai Province to work, we will buy a few of our Nanqiao women who come home to warm up the bed. Yangzhou Shouma knows, many of them are from our Nanqiao. Especially Qingshanquan Town and Shagou Township, which are even more beautiful women. There is a coal mine in Qingshanquan Town, and it is still a little better now. Shagou Township is the poorest in the county. Men either dig coal in the mine or go to work outside the country. None of the township cadres who are damn good at stakes have a few mother-in-laws, including many people in our county. Don't look at a person who looks like a person, there are not too many such people in the open and secret, which is commonplace." Xie Caigen said sourly.

Li Rui couldn't help but nodded. Although the women I saw on Nanqiao Street these days were not as fashionable as women in Pengcheng District, they could only see each one and rarely saw crooked people. Just like Aunt Fang next door, although she was over forty years old, she still had charm.

It was getting late when it was not too early, Xie Caigen picked up the tea leaves and smiled and said, "If you have time to go home for dinner?"

"Okay!" Now Xie Caigen is a comrade-in-arms who has fought side by side with him, so Li Rui of course agreed immediately.

The work of the Coal Management Bureau finally ushered in a good start, and Li Rui was in a good mood. He didn't have much trouble in charge. In the afternoon, he stayed in the office and had a phone call with Gao Jie, and then chatted with Zhao Wenlong and Zhang Guohui, a classmate from the Party School, and had some tea and read the newspaper. The day passed quickly.

After get off work, I talked and laughed with Xie Caigen and got on the same car to eat at Xie Caigen's house. My colleagues in the bureau had long heard about what happened at the party committee meeting, and saw this scene again when I got off work. Many people raised the position of the new party secretary in their hearts again.

Xie Caigen's home is not in the civil service community jointly built by the Coal Management Bureau and several other departments in the county. Instead, it is a unique courtyard in the south of the city, with a newly built two-story building. Although the outside is not very conspicuous, the decoration inside is quite good. It seems that this old guy is doing very well.

However, what surprised Li Rui was that Xie Caigen's wife, a very solid middle-aged woman, actually spoke very stiff Mandarin, and she didn't look like a Han Chinese. At the same time, Xie Caigen, who was fifty-three years old, actually had a grandson who was already in elementary school. I don't know if he got married early or his son had a child early.

Later, after Xie Caigen introduced it to me that his wife was named Gesanglam, or he met and got married when he was a soldier in the border area.

"Haha, I didn't expect that Lao Xie would get married early enough. No wonder his grandson is so old." Li Rui smiled.

Xie Caigen was not embarrassed, and laughed and said, "Oh! I heard her singing so well and she was beautiful, so I got along with her despite violating military discipline. At that time, I was about to get promoted."

"You have been talking about this for decades. Are you still regretting it?" Gesanlam walked out with a teapot and two bowls, glared at Xie Caigen, and said to Li Rui: "Secretary Li, don't listen to him. If my brother hadn't broken his legs, how could he dare!"

Li Rui laughed. Xie Caigen grabbed his head awkwardly and did not dare to defend himself. However, it can be seen that the relationship between the couple is quite good.

Gesanlam poured a bowl of butter tea and brought it to Li Rui himself.

Li Rui had been to Bian Tibet in his previous life and knew that this was the etiquette of the Tibetans to distinguished guests. He quickly got up, took the butter tea with both hands and took a big sip. Seeing Li Rui's polite look, Gesanglam's face suddenly showed surprise.

"Secretary Li, please sit down! Our family has my brother who brings barley wine. I'll have two drinks with Lao Xie later."

"I didn't expect you to understand the etiquette of Tibetans." Xie Caigen also said in surprise.

"I heard from my grandfather before." Li Rui smiled.

"Director Li is very knowledgeable!" When talking about Li Rui's grandfather, Xie Caigen couldn't help but sigh, "In the past, there were many people coming to the family, and everyone didn't understand this very much. Some people even thought butter tea was not good, which often made the old women unhappy. In fact, this is not the fault of others, after all, everyone has different ethnic customs."

The supper was very rich. Although Gesanlam was a Tibetan, she had been to Nanqiao for decades and had been accustomed to life here. Her cooking skills were quite good. There was also a plate of pickled and dried yak meat specially launched by Gesanlam, which made Li Rui praise him. Gesanlam was very happy and toasted Li Rui for two glasses of wine, and even pulled him to chat about homework.

She and Xie Caigen have two children. Both their son and daughter-in-law work in the tax bureau and live in the civil service community where Xie Caigen was originally assigned. The couple is very busy at work, so they leave their children here and come to have dinner on weekends. The younger daughter is still in the provincial capital Jiangning.

Xie Caigen thought she was nagging and was worried that Li Rui was impatient. Seeing that she had eaten almost the meal, he hurriedly rushed her: "Okay, you'll go outside to watch TV. Secretary Li and I still have to talk to you in a serious matter."

Although Gesanlam was rarely so happy, he knew the general idea. He gave Lao Xie a blank look, and then gave Li Rui a glass of wine before getting up to say goodbye.

"Old Xie, I really didn't realize that you were quite romantic when you were young. How old were you at that time? Are you twenty years old?" Li Rui and Lao Xie cried a cup and said with a smile.

"It's not too small, it's twenty-one. At that time, I just had a battle with Ah San. I met her when I was injured and recovered in the hospital. This was also fate. She was determined to follow me at that time." Xie Caigen was quite moved when talking about the past,

"But if this wasn't happening, maybe I might still be working in the army now. Maybe I could become a general, it's really not a brag. The old leader in the army still valued me very much at that time. He was so angry that he scolded me for not controlling his crotch. He was still fighting at that time. If he was to recruit a bride in the past, it would be a serious crime of beheading me. If I demoted me, it would be considered as a release from me. Otherwise, we wouldn't have sat here to drink together today."

"It's all fate. Today I didn't expect that we both would have such a connection. Come on, let's have a drink for fate."

Lao Xie has a good alcohol content. After half a pound of forty-five-degree barley wine, he still looks like nothing happened. He smiled and said, "I heard that you talked to Lao Xu yesterday. Your words to take care of the old cadre hit his vitals. I think he has a pretty good impression of you."

"How is Lao Xu? I think he seems a little timid." Li Rui asked, burying his head and destroying the yak meat on the plate.

"He is not timid but cautious, but sometimes he is a little too cautious. You don't know yet. Old Xu has been the deputy director of the county supervision bureau for more than ten years. At that time, he dared to investigate the county party secretary, and you still said he is timid." Xie Caigen said.

It turned out that Xu Chunsheng also had a story. Li Rui was very interested and said quickly: "Didn't he get the county party secretary down? Instead, he was cheated by the other party? So he is still at the deputy section level now?"

Xie Caigen shook his head and said, "The county party secretary does have a problem, but it's not a big problem. Besides, there is a leader who helps to speak. The county party secretary was transferred to the city to serve as deputy director of the Agriculture Bureau."

"Then why did he still... it wasn't this county party secretary who developed later?"

"That's right, it's just developed. Lao Xu was quite popular at that time. The county originally planned to promote him to be the deputy secretary of the county discipline inspection commission. The standing committee passed it and reported to the organization department of the municipal party committee. He was beaten back. He was transferred to the Coal Management Bureau the next year and served as the secretary of the discipline inspection department until now. The county party secretary not long after staying in the Agriculture Bureau, turned into the deputy director of the Mining Bureau, and was promoted, and jumped from the main office to the deputy department. After a few years, he became the director again, and his career was prosperous all the way... "

"Vice Governor, now he is a member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and the Executive Vice Governor." Li Rui took it on before Xie Caigen finished speaking.
Chapter completed!