Chapter 229
"Brother Haoran is not free now than Uncle Luo. He should be here soon. He just made a phone call and got off the highway. I'll come here first and wait for him and also come here to visit Rongyuan Hotel." Chen Li saw Xi Mingjuan coming, and quickly stepped forward and greeted him two steps.
Zhou Bin behind also hurriedly greeted him with a smile: "Hello Aunt Luo."
Xi Mingjuan didn't have a deep impression of Zhou Bin, but she also had several encounters. She knew that Zhou Bin was one of Chen Li's entrepreneurial partners in Xinchaorui. She was young and had great achievements. She smiled and said, "Is Xiao Zhou being brought to be a driver again by Chen Li this time?"
"This guy has learned to drive now. I, the driver, have been laid off for a long time. I want to come and see Aunt Xi and Secretary Luo together!" Zhou Bin said obediently, "I know Aunt Luo has just come to Yinghe to work with Secretary Luo, and I am a little uncomfortable. I brought you the Yang family pastry from Shangdu Cross Street this time..."
"Haha, please trouble Xiao Zhou. I still know I like this," Xi Mingjuan praised, then looked at Chen Li and Miao Faqiang in confusion. I wonder why they were standing outside the yard of Qingyan Garden and talking.
Miao Faqiang never expected that the two classmates brought back by his niece Miao Jing were actually guests that Luo Rongmin, secretary of the new municipal party committee, was going to personally treat today. He didn't know how to reply to Xi Mingjuan for a while.
Chen Li smiled and introduced Miao Jing to Xi Mingjuan, saying, "It's a coincidence that Miao Jing is my college classmate and Zhou Bin. After graduation, she also worked in Xinchaorui. This time I pulled Zhou Bin over and thought that she lacked a tour guide, so she pulled Miao Jing over. Unexpectedly, Director Miao was Miao Jing's uncle, and happened to meet him here. Seeing that there was still some time, Director Miao thought of taking us to visit Rongyuan. Unexpectedly, Aunt Xi, you come here first..."
"I'm talking about it, why did Director Miao block Lao Luo's guest outside?" Xi Mingjuan laughed, looked at Gu Yumei again, and asked in confusion, "Who is this?"
Gu Yumei was confused for a while, and when she saw Xi Mingjuan ask, she came back to her senses and said nervously: "Director Xi, I am Gu Yumei from the Supervision Section of our Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection. She just had a meeting in Rongyuan. I am also Miao Jing's mother. I don't know that the classmates Miao Jing brought back were actually the guests of Director Xi and Secretary Luo..."
Gu Yumei doesn't know Xi Mingjuan, but she also knows that the new municipal party secretary's lover is now the deputy director of the Municipal Women's Federation.
"Oh, it's a coincidence," Xi Mingjuan then went to see Miao Jing carefully, then looked at Gu Yumei and said, "You can't say that, the two of them are indeed a bit similar. Look at the long eyebrows, just like those carved from the same mold, they are all beautiful women."
"Director Xi has been awarded!" Gu Yumei did not have the aggressive momentum just now in front of Xi Mingjuan? She couldn't guess what the relationship between Luo Rongmin and the two young people in front of her was, and she was worried that some of the words just now had been said too much.
Xi Mingjuan said to Chen Li: "You have been shopping for a day and must be exhausted. Let's go inside and wait for Lao Luo first."
Miao Faqiang quickly led the way: "Look at my brain, Jing Gu has spoken, please, please, please, please."
Chen Li and Zhou Bin walked in with Xi Mingjuan, and Miao Jing stood there and looked at what Gu Yumei wanted to say; Xi Mingjuan looked back and said, "None of them are outsiders, stay for a meal together, right?"
The wife of the municipal party secretary invited her to have a meal. Gu Yumei wanted to agree immediately, but she knew in her heart that some things could not be done with casually, especially as she didn't know what was happening now. If she said the wrong thing, it would be even harder to deal with it.
Gu Yumei refused: "I have something to do, so I won't bother you anymore. I will gather with Director Xi in the future if I have the chance."
Chen Li said to Miao Jing: "Or why you go back to accompany your parents first, it is rare to go back to Yinghe. You can't even get some time together at home."
"..." Miao Jing nodded.
"Okay, then you guys are busy first." Xi Mingjuan nodded and asked Miao Faqiang to accompany them to the yard of Qingyanyuan, leaving Miao Jing to talk to her mother Gu Yumei outside the yard.
"This girl looks pretty... "Xi Mingjuan walked into Qingyan Garden and couldn't help but ask Chen Li in a low voice.
Chen Li smiled and said, "It's really an ordinary classmate and a colleague..." He didn't know what Zhou Bin and Miao Jing were in the face of Xi Mingjuan, and he didn't want to joke about Zhou Bin casually.
"You, you know how to work all day long. If you don't like such a beautiful girl, Xiao Zhou has to start early." Xi Mingjuan was too scattered and asked for advice from Zhou Bin.
Miao Faqiang, who led the way, listened to Xi Mingjuan and Chen Li and Zhou Bin, and did not feel like he was an outsider at all. He confirmed that his niece's two classmates had a very different relationship with Secretary Luo's family. He just didn't know what identities these two young people were, nor did he know how far Miao Jing and this young man named Zhou Bin developed.
At this time, Miao Faqiang saw that Zhou Bin liked the more he looked at him. He was tall and big, and was quite energetic. He was very polite in front of him and Gu Yumei just now, and he was also surprised. Why didn’t he see so many advantages just now?
Qingyan Garden is a Chinese-style yard structure with only three private rooms. Chen Li and his team are not large in number, so they are arranged in the east wing room with the best view at night. However, due to Luo Rongmin, the other two large private rooms were also empty. The two pine trees in the yard are seven or eight meters high, with twisted branches, and they look like they have grown for hundreds of years.
Since Luo Rongmin had not arrived yet, they did not go directly to the seat and sat down in the reception area. Miao Faqiang asked the waiter to stay outside, and he personally served tea and poured water, hoping to make up for some of the inappropriate words just now. After pouring the tea, Miao Faqiang knew that he could not stay and was annoying, so he went out first.
As soon as they sat down, Chen Li's phone rang. When Chen Li saw that Zhang Haoran's name was on it, he thought that he should have gone to Rongyuan and wanted to go out to answer it directly.
Zhou Bin stood up first and said, "Brother Haoran is here? I'll pick him up!"
Before Zhou Bin walked out of the yard, he saw Miao Faqiang standing outside the yard. Miao Jing and her mother had already left. I wonder if they had gone back directly.
When Miao Faqiang saw Zhou Bin coming out, he knew that Zhou Bin was going out to pick up the person, so he walked out with him, taking out the Chinese cigarette for Zhou Bin as he walked, and even lit a cigarette for Zhou Bin.
Zhou Bin took the cigarette over, but Miao Faqiang was Miao Jing’s third uncle after all, so he didn’t dare to let Miao Faqiang light a cigarette for him.
The two of them walked out as they spoke and happened to see Luo Rongmin and his secretary walking in one after another.
"Secretary Luo!" Zhou Bin hurriedly met and threw the cigarette in his hand into the sink of the trash can in the corridor.
Seeing Zhou Bin, Luo Rongmin smiled and said with a smile: "Xiao Zhou, have you been waiting for a long time?"
"No, we just arrived not long ago. Aunt Luo and Chen Li were already inside. I came out to pick up Brother Haoran, and he should have arrived at the gate of Rongyuan!" This is Yinghe, not Shangdu. Although Luo Rongmin was a member of the country, Zhou Bin unconsciously showed a sense of intimacy in front of Luo Rongmin.
Miao Faqiang said calmly: "Secretary Luo, I have arranged the dinner at Qingyan Garden, and I am waiting for you and the guests to come - otherwise you and Secretary Li come in first, and I will accompany Mr. Zhou out to pick up the guests."
"Haoran is not an outsider, let's wait a moment." Luo Rongmin stood outside the yard and waited for Zhang Haoran to drive in before entering the Qingyan Garden together.
Seeing that the guests had almost arrived, Miao Faqiang appeared carefully in the private room and asked Luo Rongmin: "Secretary Luo, do you think you will start serving the dishes now?"
Luo Rongmin was talking to Chen Li and Zhang Haoran in the reception area, looking back at Miao Faqiang and said, "Well, let's start, Director Miao, the comrades from the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection have not left tonight, right?"
"No, it's on the side of Xiaodonglou." Miao Faqiang replied.
"You can accompany Haoran and Chen Li and the others to have a meal first, I'll go over and take a look first." Luo Rongmin finished speaking to Xi Mingjuan.
Miao Faqiang and his secretary Li Zhiming accompanied Luo Rongmin to Xiaodonglou. Seeing that there were no outsiders in the room, Zhang Haoran asked Xi Mingjuan: "Aunt Xi, are you used to living in Yinghe?"
"I don't have any habits or not. I've followed him wherever he went over the years. Now you're better, and you don't have to go back and forth when you stay in Shang. I don't know how many times I have to go back and forth. Xu Jie and the children are all okay?" Luo Rong's poll was not as good as in Shangdu when he came to Yinghe, but he was a real local official after all, with a strong power and a completely different person than a complex Shangdu.
Xi Mingjuan, who is usually very cautious in speaking and doing things, has a little pride in her words at this time. After all, Chen Li and the others are not outsiders.
Luo Rongmin said he would come whenever he went. Xi Mingjuan called everyone to move their chopsticks several times. Chen Li and Zhang Haoran both tried it casually, and Zhou Bin sat aside and didn't dare to move around.
Several people chatted about family matters, but Luo Rongmin had not come back yet.
Chen Li smiled and said, "Secretary Luo is even busier to come to Yinghe than to be in Shangdu!"
"Oh, you don't know!" Xi Mingjuan paused and continued: "Yinghe's fraud case is quite complicated and involves too wide. The Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection's special task force has investigated here for more than six months. During this period of investigation and evidence collection, Lao Luo was the only one in charge of the work in Yinghe City. The work is indeed hard..."
Chapter completed!