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Chapter 22 Life needs thick skin

Updated: 2012-07-08

With a "creak", the door that was not tightly closed was pushed open from outside.

Xiong Wenbin and Zhao Dong were playing chess. Xiong Dailing stood behind his father and massaged his back. Xiong Wenbin's lover, Teacher Bai Sumei, was holding a rolling pin in his hand and stood at the kitchen door talking.

When they saw Chen Huaimen breaking in without knocking, they all looked at him strangely.

"Secretary Chen, is there anything wrong?" Bai Sumei asked in confusion.

Although Chen Huai also lived in the Tongzi Building, he was very arrogant. Bai Sumei nodded and greeted the young man when she met him, but ignored him three or four times, and she became disgusted with the young man. Moreover, this young man's life was a bit unconditional.

He hadn't greeted him a few times in half a year. When Bai Sumei suddenly opened the door and felt strange.

Xiong Wenbin was also surprised, but he just turned his head and looked at Chen Huai, and was still moving his puppy and playing chess in a calm manner.

Zhao Dong is not as calm as Xiong Wenbin. They just chatted about Chen Mingde's sudden death due to illness and Shen Huai's previous attack on Ge Yongqiu's brother-in-law at the city steel factory.

This is probably the most hotly debated thing in Donghua City in the past four or five days.

Zhao Dong's ticket also had a phone number copied by Chen Huai to him, but they didn't know the more detailed inside story. However, thinking that Chen Mingde died suddenly due to illness, Chen Huai had no backer ever since. If he had not left Donghua, he might not have a good life in the municipal government.

People cannot survive alone, especially when they are officials, they must have their own circle.

Chen Huai couldn't wait for Xiong Wenbin. Zhao Dong and others came to accept him, knowing that they would not have any good impression of him. It was too difficult to change this impression and took time, so he decided to take the initiative to break into their circle.

Faced with the doubts of the room, Chen Huai smiled and said, "Director Xiong and Section Chief Zhao are playing chess!" He walked over with shamelessness, approached the chessboard, and said, "Secretary Zhao's chess is not optimistic. You are not the opponent of Director Xiong. Why don't you let me and Director Xiong have a game?"

Zhao Dong had a good impression of Chen Huai, but after hearing what he said, that good impression was broken.

His chess skills are much worse than Xiong Wenbin, and he knew in his heart. No one in this building can have better chess skills than Xiong Wenbin. He also sat down and let Xiong Wenbin abuse and kill him, and enjoyed his chess, but Chen Huai, a person who was not in the world, broke in. Suddenly speaking, it was too abrupt and rude.

However, Zhao Dong is a humble person. Even if he is unhappy, he will not show it too much. Seeing that Chen Huai was about to rush to play chess with Xiong Wenbin, he wanted to ask Director Xiong to kill him, so he stood up and gave up his seat: "Secretary Chen wants to play chess, then, you come..."

Xiong Dailing had never seen Chen Huai before, so she just heard her father talk about this to Zhao Dong. She had a bad impression of him or not. Seeing him rudely kicking Zhao Dong off the chess table, she thought to herself: What a despicable guy.

Xiong Dailing was too lazy to watch chess anymore, so she turned around and went into the kitchen to help her mother cook.

Chen Huai's performance is very strange, but Xiong Wenbin looked warm and wanted to re-set the chess.

"Let's play," Chen Huai smiled, "Secretary Zhao's chess is not too weak, both chariots and hordes are still there."

Arrogant! Too arrogant.

Zhao Dong laughed angry. Although his game of chess had just started, he had already given him a cannon and his position was disrupted. Even if Chen Huai had the professional chess skills of Haiwen, it would be difficult to get back to his disadvantages.

Xiong Wenbin didn't say anything.

Chen Huai looked at the chessboard for a while, picked up the horse crossing the river, and jumped back two blocks.

Just this move is called Xiong Wenbin secretly. Arrogant means being a little arrogant, but it is just a bit arrogant.

In the blink of an eye, not only did he see who would move the chess first from the direction of the chess, but he also quickly came up with countermeasures and retracted to adjust the chess that were at a disadvantage. This move shows that his chess power is indeed not weak.

Chen Huai and Xiong Wenbin made a quick move, with cars jumping across the board, and cannons flying. In a blink of an eye, they fell into the endgame.

When Zhao Dong saw that Chen Huai could start his bad chess game, he only had one less pass than Xiong Wenbin in the endgame. He also secretly felt that Chen Huai's chess skills were not necessarily weaker than Lao Xiong, and he was arrogant and qualified to be arrogant.

Zhao Dong is such a person. Who is really better than him? Even if he is a little arrogant, it will not be difficult to accept. He dragged a chair and sat on the side to watch chess.

Xiong Dailing walked out of the kitchen and saw Chen Huai looking up, asking her, "I'm going to have a meal?" She turned to her head and said to her father, "I lost this game of chess. After dinner, I will play another chess with Director Xiong..."

I've seen shameless people, but I've never seen such shameless people.

At this time, Xiong Dailing walked out of the kitchen and took a look. She wanted Chen Huai to play chess and went back. They were so happy that they could eat. However, Chen Huai didn't refuse and just treated herself as a guest.

Bai Sumei didn't see that shameless, but Chen Huai said so, and he couldn't drive people out, so he could only walk out and arrange: "Eat first, and after dinner, you will have time to play chess..."

"I'll go back first, you can set it up first." Chen Huai stood up and went back to his house first.

Xiong Dailing packed up the chess pieces in anger and asked her father and others in a voice: "Have you seen this shameless?"

Everyone laughed in silence. They had never seen such shameless people, but they were indescribable and didn't feel particularly annoying. Chen Huai's behavior was like a familiar neighbor who had been in contact with him for more than half a year. It was not a big deal to have dinner here temporarily.

Looking at Xiong Dailing curling her lips, she was a little unhappy. Zhao Dong smiled and said, "I'm afraid Secretary Chen has found out where Teacher Bai's cooking skills!"

Bai Sumei just smiled and asked her little daughter to help bring the bowl and the plate.

Chen Huai came over soon, changed his coat, carried two bottles of wine in his hand, and said, "I can't drink, but I heard that Director Xiong and Section Chief Zhao have a good alcohol tolerance, and I don't know if the only two bottles of wine left in my house are enough..."

When the youngest daughter came back, and Zhao Dong came to visit, Bai Sumei specially made a table of good dishes and rolled out a pot of wide noodles, which was a home-cooked meal.

He also joked about Chen Huai that Chen Huai was greedy for his family's cheap meals, but he didn't expect that Chen Huai was carrying two bottles of Moutai, and the money for wine alone was much more expensive than food.

Chen Huai didn't care about other people's dazed, took the wine bottle and put it on the table. He rolled the sleeve tube two rolls, and first opened a bottle of Moutai. The smell of wine filled the room.

Even Xiong Dailing, who usually feels dizzy when smelling the wine, praised: "What a good wine!"

Zhao Dong had also drank Moutai two or three times before, but he had never seen Moutai with such a strong aroma. He curiously took the wine bottle and looked no different from ordinary Moutai. He asked Xiong Wenbin: "Director Xiong, have you ever seen this kind of Moutai?"

Xiong Wenbin glanced at the wine bottle, didn't reach out to take it, shook his head, and said, "It's rare."

"It was also the several bottles of special wine that Mayor Chen brought back to Yanjing. Mayor Chen was quitting drinking and asked me to hide it for him. I stole two bottles of wine, but I didn't expect..." Chen Huai couldn't help feeling sad when he said this. Speaking of it, Chen Mingde was really not bad for him.

Xiong Wenbin and the others had no feelings about Chen Mingde's sudden death, but for the sake of good wine, they all remained silent.

Chen Huai asked Zhao Dong again: "By the way, Section Chief Zhao, Sister Sun Haiwen's affairs, did the city steel factory have a result later?"

In the past four days, he secretly went to Meixi Town to visit Xiao Li. He just looked at his sister from afar and returned to the city, without any excuses to ask about the handling of the accident.

If Chen Mingde was still alive, he could directly instruct the municipal steel mill to give corresponding compensation. Now that Chen Mingde died suddenly due to illness, Chen Huai thought that Ge Yongqiu and his brother-in-law were probably full of revenge for themselves, and the investigation of the death accident would naturally be incomplete.

"It's also a pity that Secretary Chen, you rejected the investigation that day. Later, Director Xiong also helped and the steel mill agreed to pay Xiao Li's living expenses and tuition fees until he was working..." Zhao Dong said.

It's not that little money at all. The so-called living expenses are only one or two hundred per month. Chen Huai is even more worried that Xiao Li and cousin Chen Dan are stubborn. If they get involved with the city steel mill for compensation, they will suffer losses.

After hearing that Xiong Wenbin had intervened and had been successfully resolved, Chen Huai felt relieved and said, "It's good..." He had no position to express his gratitude to Xiong Wenbin.

"It's better to bring Xiaoli here to live," Bai Sumei thought of the little girl staying alone in Meixi Town, and she wiped her tears as she spoke. "Dailing wouldn't come back from time to time after she was in college, so she just thought she had raised an extra daughter..."

"What nonsense? Xiao Li has uncles in Meixi Town. Do you have to be someone else's mother?" Xiong Wenbin said to his wife, frowned and thought for a while, and said to Zhao Dong, "When did you go to see Xiao Li, just ask her if she wants to go to school in the city. In this way, she can stay in schools, weekends, go back to Meixi, or live here..."

Before Zhao Dong could answer the conversation, Xiong Dailing rushed to say, "What do you want Zhao Dong to do? I won't go back to school tomorrow, so I'll go to Meixi Town to see Xiao Li. I'll ask her directly."

"By the way, I'm going to Meixi tomorrow..." Chen Huai thought that through Xiong Wenbin, Zhao Dong and others, he would not seem abrupt. He heard Xiong Dailing say she was going to see Xiaoli tomorrow, but she said she would go together without thinking too much.

"I dare not help Secretary Chen with him." Xiong Dailing glanced at Chen Huai and didn't care about his sudden enthusiasm. She had seen such enthusiasm so much that Chen Huai was not inferior to Chen Huai.

Chen Huai wanted to slap himself. The little girl was going to Meixi Town, so he followed him tightly, not intentionally to make people think too much. He could only explain for himself as he pretended to be relaxed. Xiong Wenbin, who was obviously stunned, said: "I may have to go to Meixi Town to work in a while, thinking about getting familiar with the situation first. There is nothing to do about these things. Come on, drink first, and after drinking, you have to play a game of chess with Director Xiong."

When Zhao Dong heard Chen Huai say he was going to work in Meixi Town, his eyes widened and his curiosity became curious, but it was not convenient to ask in detail.

Two bottles of Moutai were also given a glass to Xiong Wenbin's lover, and three of them only had six taels of wine, and they were finished quickly.

After playing another game of chess, Chen Huai quickly killed Xiong Wenbin's old coach in the endgame, pushed the chess piece and stood up, and smiled and said, "It's so late, then I won't disturb you..."

Xiong Dailing looked at the wall clock without any concealment, and it was so late to disturb her.

Chen Huai smiled in his heart, looked at Xiong Dailing's fighting look, and pushed the door open and walked out first.

Chen Huai walked out, and Zhao Dong suppressed his curiosity all night and couldn't help but vomit: "Chen Mingde just passed away, is it too fast for the city to attack Chen Huai?"

When Shen Huai went down to Meixi Town, Zhao Dong naturally thought that he was kicking out of the municipal government for retaliation.

Thinking about the majestic appearance of Chen Huai when he punched Zhou Dazui at the city steel factory a few days ago, Zhao Dong secretly said, feeling that the situation became really fast-

"Maybe not," Xiong Wenbin shook his head, but after thinking about it carefully, he couldn't figure it out, so he didn't say anything else. "He came to Donghua with Chen Mingde. It was said that he could go back to the provincial capital, so it was quite strange that he stayed in Donghua..."

Zhao Dong was not familiar with Chen Huai before. He really knew Chen Huai because he started with Chen Huai's punching Zhou Dazui at the steel factory in the city.

The fight was not Zhao Dong's style, but when he saw Zhou Dazui beat Chen Huai, he still felt very pleased. Besides, Chen Huai really helped them a lot, and he still had a good impression of Chen Huai.

Today, Chen Huai started to break in. He was so thick-skinned that he was speechless, but the next drink was very lively. Except for Xiong Dailing's little temperament, everyone was actually not unhappy.

Even if they took advantage of Chen Huai's meal, they still had a great advantage when they drank good wine that they had never had before. The key point is that Xiong Wenbin also had a chess addiction. Thinking of this, Zhao Dong said again: "The chess power of Secretary Chen is really not weak. It's been a long time since I saw Director Xiong lose. If he stayed in the city, Director Xiong would have found a chess friend..."

Xiong Wenbin laughed, playing chess pictures was a pleasure, not a picture of winning or losing.

Xiong Wenbin had very little contact with Chen Huai before. He heard that his style was not right. Usually, he just looked up under the eaves and met. He was indeed arrogant. But judging from his enthusiasm today, he suddenly felt that this young man was hard to see clearly.

"Don't be the idea of ​​making Dailing?" Bai Sumei was a little alert to Chen Huai's sudden enthusiasm today, and said in a voice, "Besides, Secretary Chen's style is not very positive..." Chen Huai's style is not correct, but Bai Sumei heard that, and several times he saw an inappropriate girl coming and going in and out of the room next door.

The more Bai Sumei thought about it, the more suspicious he felt, because she was afraid that Chen Huai would take his mind to Dailing. Chen Huai usually looked up at them and was lazy at first glance, but Dailing came back today. He acted like a thief who was exploring the way, and just said that he would accompany Dailing to Meixi Town.

"Mom, what are you talking nonsense?" Xiong Dailing was unhappy when she saw them talking to her, "Is he upright in style? Why are he pulling me? I don't even look at him."

"You have a high vision," Bai Sumei said to her little daughter, "Remember to me, you are not allowed to fall in love when you go to school, and go back to work in Donghua after graduation. Don't think that your wings can fly as soon as you grow up."

"Who said he was going to fall in love?" Xiong Dailing said back.

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