Chapter 84 Midterm exam results

Zhang Ke knew that it would be a foolish act to continue shopping in the afternoon. After lunch, he suggested going to a cafe next to Oriental Plaza to relax and let everyone enjoy the mood of the bourgeoisie. The mood of the bourgeoisie was not a word for the time being in 1994; until more than ten years later, domestic coffee shops were high-end places where civilians were not close to each other, and in 1994, it was even more slaughtering people without discussing it. Even Ling Xiaoyan complained that Zhu Xiaojun only went to the coffee shop on the day of confession. However, Xu Wei was a little doubtful, and Zhang Ke didn't blink his eyes when he spent money, but Xu Si didn't mean to stop him.

After a short rest in the cafe, she left the provincial capital directly. Xu Si pulled her sister Xu Wei aside, hoping to give her some money to improve her college life, but she didn't want her to work too hard.

Xu Wei refused to ask for it anyway. Zhang Ke thought that Xu Wei might know something about Xu Si's past, and probably had bad associations with Xu Si's current situation.

Xu Si and Xu Wei pushed, and the atmosphere suddenly became stagnant. Everyone stopped and didn't say anything, and they felt very strange. It was normal for my sister to give her a living expenses to her sister who was studying in college. Seeing Xu Si feeling so uncomfortable that she was about to cry, Zhang Ke felt very uncomfortable and said with a reluctant smile: "One thousand yuan is not enough to drink coffee. Sister Xu Wei thinks it is rare..."

"We are just a little bit of a slight eye. For ordinary people, a salary of three or four months is of course great." Xu Wei's face was a little cold. She couldn't convince herself to collect her sister Xu Si's money. She was stubborn there, and everyone couldn't get out of the way.

Zhang Ke smiled, not caring at all, looked at Xu Wei's firm and charming face with a shy face, and could also understand her mood, saying, "Sister Xu Wei has been working all the time? I plan to introduce you to a job, which can be worth several odd jobs." Seeing that Xu Wei had turned aside and ignored him, he continued, "I would like to ask Sister Xu Wei to help take care of a little girl who is only four years old this year. She was frightened in a car accident this summer and refused to speak yet, which is the so-called aphasia..."

Zhitong's experience could touch Xu Wei's soft heart. She turned her face, her expression relaxed a lot, and asked, "What can I do?"

"Her mother is the boss of Xu Sijie's company. She is very busy and hard. She needs to be patiently accompanied by people we can trust. Of course, she needs to have some knowledge of early childhood education," Zhang Ke ordered a stack of money, put it on the table, and pushed it to Xu Wei. "If you want to be competent for this job, you also need to receive some special training. I hope you can contact the relevant training institutions yourself, or Sister Xu Sijie will contact you first and then notify you. This is the training fee. You can stay first. For other jobs, please quit from today..."

Zhang Ke's sudden mature tone made Xu Wei feel uncomfortable. Not only her, Jiang Daier, Ling Xiaoyan, Lin Bing, and Zhu Xiaojun on the side did not expect that this sixteen-year-old boy would talk about something so seriously, and also attracted Zhitong's affairs. They held their anger and didn't speak, but their eyes encouraged Xu Wei to agree.

Whether it is the attractiveness of work or the understanding of my sister's current situation, Xu Wei couldn't refuse. He just couldn't adapt to Zhang Ke's tone of speaking. He looked at the stack of money in front of him and didn't know what to do.

Xu Si breathed a sigh of relief, smiled gently, and said, "Zhitong has always refused to take care of strangers. I don't know if she can accept you. She always has to give it a try to know."

"Can you see Zhi first..." Xu Wei couldn't hear Zhitong's name clearly.

"The little girl is Zhitong. If she can accept you, we will hope you can help you immediately, and then you will not have time to conduct professional training, so I hope you can prepare everything before meeting..." Zhang Keyi's attitude of not wasting a little time for just a few thousand yuan was indeed very good at being a rich man and confusing.

Xu Wei hesitated to accept the money, and Zhang Ke continued: "My sister and I may not have time to come to the provincial capital during this period. Zhitong and her mother will often go to Haizhou on weekends. It may be more convenient for you to go back to Haizhou to meet again. All the car and ship expenses can be reimbursed from the company..."

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At about two o'clock in the afternoon, Zhang Ke paid the bill and said goodbye to Xu Wei and the others, asking them to sit in the cafe for a while. Before leaving, he secretly glanced at Jiang Dai'er. Seeing that her eyelids were blushing, he thought that he was such a wonderful person, and he didn't know that he would never see him again in the future.

Carrying a large bag of small items, Zhang Ke walked out of the Oriental Plaza. Zhang Ke asked Xu Si: "Sister Xu Si, can I scare Sister Xu Wei by saying that just now?"

"You..." Xu Si's soft heart felt a lot. Although Zhang Ke was still young, he was a considerate and reassuring boy. He knew his explanations that he could not speak, so he tried every means to let Xu Wei contact Zhitong to understand his current situation. Xu Wei hasn't returned to Haizhou for too long, and he didn't know how worried his parents were. He wanted to make up such an excuse when he asked her to go back.

Seeing Xu Si's beautiful face full of melancholy, Zhang Ke smiled and said, "Sister Xu Si, if you are moved to cry, after getting in the car, I can lend you my chest for a while."

"Go, the dog can't spit out ivory!" Xu Si smiled with a smile, with a soft voice and a smile as if she was like a flower. "Who was moved?"

I returned to Haizhou before the sun sets, and the new car parked downstairs of the company.

Not only Haitai Trade, there are many companies working overtime on Sundays in Xinhaitong Building. When I was just off work, there were a lot of people in the square upstairs of the building. The new Audi cars may not attract people's attention. There are three Mercedes-Benz parking lots in Xinhaitong Building, but with special military signs, the feeling they give others is very different. People passing by can't help but look back a few times, which is no worse than Xu Si's turnover rate.

Seeing Jiang Wei and Zhou Yiping walk out of the hall of Xinhaitong, and seeing the military-plate Audi parking in the square, they also looked here for a few more times. Zhang Ke rolled down the window and called them over.

"This car?" Jiang Wei did not hide the surprise on her face, "This license plate is difficult to deal with, there are only two or three military sub-districts, right?"

There are only two military license plates and Audi cars in Haizhou Military Sub-district. The Audi, the commander of the Military Sub-district, has a displacement of 3.2L, which is somewhat over-spec, but it has real power in the region and is one of the members of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee. It is understandable that the number of the military license plate is much smaller than that of this car. Of course, most people will not pay attention to too subtle details. Zhang Ke did not explain. If the other party does not understand and cannot show off, it will become a show-off.

"The favors given by Mr. Ye from Shengxin cannot be in vain," Zhang Ke smiled and said to Jiang Wei: "Xu Si still has some things. You can drive me home and use the car for you."

"Does Manager Zhang not have a driver's license?" Zhou Yiping asked in surprise.

It doesn't matter if you don't have a driver's license to drive this car. The car accident caused me to go back to 1994 for no reason, and witnessed the 718 major traffic accident with my own eyes. I was a little offended by driving. At least in the minds of Xu Xueping, Xie Wanqing and others, I should not like people who drive illegally.

"Well," Zhang Ke replied foolishly, without explaining anything. There were very few people who received a driver's license in 1994, and even the privileged class may not necessarily have a driver's license.

Jiang Wei was responsible for negotiating with the Chengnan District Government to contract and operate the Xinguang Paper Factory for more than ten days. She was gradually accepting the fact that Zhang Ke was still a high school student, and she also cooperated and continued to fool others with tacit understanding. Seeing Zhang Ke let him take him home on behalf of Xu Si, Jiang Wei thought to herself that Zhang Zhixing might really not know that Xu Si was actually working for his son, otherwise she would not have to do anything else.

Xu Si pushed the door and got out of the car. In the past two days, she accompanied Zhang Ke to the provincial capital. She was brighter and brighter than usual in the company. At this time, she was gorgeous and bright. When she walked out of the car door, Jiang Wei was dissatisfied and immediately attracted more attention than the Audi car. Zhou Yiping stuttered his lips next to him: "Assistant Xu is so beautiful today."

Xu Si smiled and saw Zhang Ke reaching out of the window and knocking on the door, bent over and ask what he was doing.

Zhang Ke handed her the plastic bag with exquisite patterns to her: "For you."

Xu Si accompanied Zhang Ke to the Oriental Plaza throughout the whole process. Of course, he knew that the plastic bag contained a pair of diamond-inlaid earrings. Although it was not outrageously expensive, Zhang Ke was very careful when choosing. Compared with his own ears, he muttered, "My mother wears this very eye-catching." At that time, he never thought that Zhang Ke was choosing for him. He thought that Zhang Ke didn't want others to know what he was thinking, and no one could guess. He looked at Zhang Ke with a little shock and hesitated whether to accept it.

Zhang Ke put the plastic bag into Xu Si's hand and said, "Sister Jiang also has gifts." When Jiang Wei sat beside her, she handed her a jewelry box, "I spent a long time with Xu Si. The beautiful big sister had gifts..." But Zhou Yiping asked Zhou Yiping to take a box of food out of the car, "Male compatriots, let me give you some food and eat it."

Before driving the other people in Haitai Trade left the building, Jiang Wei asked him to drive away. When he arrived at home, he hung up the phone to Tang Jing and informed her to come and move the pile of things he had bought in the car back home. Liang Gezhen looked at the pile of things and asked Zhang Ke: "How much did it cost, so many piles of things?"

"When working for Sister Wanqing, do you think your son is a waste of time in the company?" Zhang Ke made a big purchase today, and asked his parents to gradually accept the fact that he would be very rich. Otherwise, he would have made a lot of money and kept it hidden and could not spend it, which would be quite depressing. He had a vaccination with Jiang Wei on the road and asked her to cooperate with the acting.

Jiang Wei sat upstairs for a while. Although the residence of Zhang Zhixing, the secretary-general of the municipal government, was not as good as his home. Although Song Peiming did not mention Xu Hongbo's speculation about Zhang Zhixing's background, she had been immersed in administrative opportunities for seven or eight years. Seeing that although Zhang Ke was still young, his premature and maturity were completely abilities that only a genius boy could possess. Especially Xie Wanqing's unreserved trust in him, he could feel that his importance in that network of relationships may not be worse than Zhang Zhixing.

Zhang Ke has more ordinary young people's habits at home, and less sharpness and smoothness that will be revealed in the company. Jiang Wei sat for a while, then thought about Zhang Ke for a while. She couldn't figure it out. She drank the tea in the cup and said goodbye. The registration procedures for the new company are almost completed. Next, she has to directly sign a contract with the Chengnan District Government to contract and operate the Xinguang Paper Factory. There are still some details that have not been finalized, so she will not be able to get off the ground in the past two days.

If you drive an Audi home, your father-in-law will be surprised by your husband who always thinks he is clinging to his family.

After Jiang Wei walked for a while, Tang Jing pulled her mother Gu Jianping over to pick up gifts. Gu Jianping and Liang Gezhen sat in the living room chatting. Tang Jing opened the door of Zhang Ke's room and looked at the pile of things on the bed with a happy face, but looked at Zhang Ke: "You are still very knowledgeable and tactful, and you know that you want to please me..."

Zhang Ke patted his forehead and sighed: "I was disappointed, I thought you wouldn't help but jump up and kiss me..."

"Dream, I'll help you tell such a lie, and you should repay me," Tang Jing raised her head slightly, proud and contented, her tender and greasy face filled with a youthful atmosphere. "Your mother asked about your midterm exam results, I lie for you, so I don't dare to look at your mother's eyes now."

Zhang Ke looked defeated and fell straight on the bed, curled up, watching Tang Jing with ornaments, Kun bags, and clothes standing in front of the bed, and asking Zhang Ke in surprise: "How do you know I like this?"

The brief disaster at Tang Xueqian's family did not leave too deep scars on Tang Jing's heart. Compared to Xu Si's shyness and charm, Tang Jing's beauty makes people feel more of the ubiquitous pure aura and vitality. She is wearing a ponytail, her handsome face is flawless, her eyes are clear and bright, and she is wearing a magenta coat and jeans, stretching her slender thighs straight, standing in the room, walking around, as if a cheerful deer's four hooves are gently trampling on Zhang Ke's heart.

Tang Jing finally couldn't help trying on those clothes. Zhang Ke wanted to stay away and kicked her out of the room with three fists and legs. Zhang Ke had no choice but to take the gift to Gu Jianping to the living room.

"I have a gift, too?" Gu Jianping happily took the jewelry box, which was a string of pearl necklaces. Pearl breeding in China was popular for a long time, and pearls were worthy of being depreciated. After more than ten years, there was almost no one on the street who would wear pearl necklaces, but in 1994, wearing pearl necklaces still looked jewel-like and elegant.

"Why did you bring a gift to Aunt Gu?" Liang Gezhen looked up at her son.

Zhang Ke shrugged and said that it was only one. Liang Gezhen took Gu Jianping's hand and said, "Wanqing is also a salary for Xiao Ke. He bought gifts. Seeing that they were all gifts from your Jingjing, I feel sad as a mother. Don't think there are fewer gifts..."

Gu Jianping smiled and said, "It seems that I will get used to it slowly in the future. I will be satisfied if I receive a gift."

At this moment, Tang Jing changed into a dress and pushed the door out: "Mom, Aunt Liang, how do you look at my clothes? Zhang Ke's eyes are really good, you know I like this kind of clothes..."

The denim jacket, with a light gray fur grass collar, makes Tang Jing's face look delicate and charming, and she shows off her new clothes playfully. She has a pure black and gold art letter T-shirt, a gray pleated velvet princess skirt, and a black knee-length pleated black boots, which makes her look perfect in the shape of her legs.

"This clothes should have been worn by Qianqian. If I hadn't seen Qianqian at noon, I would have suspected that she would have followed her to the provincial capital..." Liang Gezhen praised, "Xiao Ke is quite good at choosing clothes, and it's just right in size."

Tang Qian changed into a pure black short-sleeved velvet robe with wide open collar. The collar was decorated with gray and black weeds, revealing her slender arms as white as snow, making Tang Jing more and more beautiful and charming. Zhang Ke had to admire her own eyes.

Zhang Zhixing pushed the door and said in surprise: "Why did we have such a beautiful little princess in our house? Where did Zhang Ke cheat him back?"

"Uncle Zhang," Tang Jing called Zhang Zhixing shyly, and her eyes turned to Zhang Ke's face with a grin, and raised her eyebrows proudly, "Just because Zhang Ke still wants to deceive me?"

Zhang Zhixing smiled and turned to Gu Jianping and said, "The city will hold an extraordinary meeting of the Standing Committee tonight. I don't know when it will end. Sister Gu and Qianqian will have dinner here, don't worry about Mayor Tang."

"I came to Tang Jing at this time, and I didn't plan to go back empty-handed." Gu Jianping said with a smile without seeing her.

The two families are so close that even if Gu Jianping and Tang Jing stayed for dinner, they didn’t need to prepare deliberately. The dinner table was added two more dishes than usual. Gu Jianping was a person who couldn’t hide his worries in his heart. At the dinner table, he inevitably complained about Tang Xueqian’s current work difficulties: “Old Tang of my family bullied the old man named Wan, last time, and he was so angry that he didn’t sleep well for several days. When he became the deputy mayor, he swallowed his anger. He had to swallow his anger as the mayor. My family’s old Tang was only forty-four, and his hair was a little gray. Many people who were older than him had black hair…”

Zhang Zhixing smiled. He couldn't and wouldn't interrupt the complaints like women's houses.

The last time Gu Jianping mentioned was the matter submitted by the Municipal Standing Committee to the Municipal People's Congress that the Municipal People's Congress was unreasonably rejected. Zhou Fuming was promoted to secretary and Tang Xueqian acted mayor. He was nominally the first and second leaders of Haizhou City, but his foundation was unstable. Other members of the Standing Committee had their own thoughts. In the past two years, Wan Xiangqian, who squeezed Ding Xiangshan to the Municipal People's Congress, then he acted as the Supreme Emperor. To put it bluntly, it was just bullying Zhou Fuming and Tang Xueqian. In addition, there was a controversy within the Municipal Standing Committee that adjusted the Municipal People's Congress. Therefore, Wan Xiangqian did this and there was no way to fight back.

The Municipal Standing Committee meeting held today and yesterday mainly discussed the issue of the last adjustment of personnel of municipal agencies. Compared with half a month ago, the situation tilted towards Zhou Fuming and Tang Xueqian. The key role was that Haiyu Company was interested in intervening in the operation of Xinguang Paper Factory spread on a small scale.

Ding Xiangshan's accidental fall, and the case was extremely serious, which completely cut off the upper resources of Ding Xiangshan's officials in the province. It can also be said that the connection between the Haizhou officialdom and the provincial capital was at some point. The 718 major traffic accident was more like a haze cloud covering the sky above the Haizhou officialdom.

As long as anyone in the Standing Committee can re-establish this connection with the province, or even just leave a deep impression on the provincial party secretary, governor and others, they can gain an absolute advantage in the adjustments next year and the following year, and it is not impossible to replace Zhou Fuming.

It is in such an atmosphere that the current subtle situation in the officialdom in Haizhou City has added great resistance to Zhou Fuming and Tang Xueqian's work.

The news that Haiyu Company intends to intervene in the operation of Xinguang Paper Mill is tantamount to those who are politically sensitive, which means that the haze of the 718 major traffic accident has disappeared. It is not difficult to remind people of the relationship between Zhou Fuming, Tang Xueqian and Xu Xueping, deputy secretary of the provincial party committee and secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Committee, have been restored.

Before the Ding Xiangshan case was revealed, for the province, Tang Xueqian and Zhou Fuming were people who could withstand the test. With the relationship between Xu Xueping, it would undoubtedly stabilize their status in Haizhou. Although Xu Xueping ranks third in the province, under such circumstances, it is unlikely that the provincial party secretary and the governor would take political risks and choose others to replace Tang Xueqian and Zhou Fuming.

What doesn't seem to be too important has greatly eliminated the unstable factors in Haizhou City.

Zhang Zhixing glanced at his son, not sure whether he really saw through the subtleties of the Haizhou officialdom at such a young age, but the trick of Haiyu Company being involved in the Xinguang Paper Factory running was really wonderful.

Several small cars in the municipal government parked in the courtyard at night. After dinner, Zhang Zhixing notified the driver to send Gu Jianping and Tang Jing, who was wrapped in a lot of gifts, to go back. At about eight o'clock, he received a call from Tang Xueqian and learned that the temporary meeting of the Standing Committee was extremely smooth. The adjustment plan of the municipal government personnel was approved without any resistance. The resolution passed by the Municipal Standing Committee without any resistance was approved, and Wan Xiangqian would no longer be courageous and unreasonable, otherwise he might have retired completely in advance. Tang Xueqian finally said: "I really helped you to reward Secretary Zhou and me for your boy..."

Zhang Zhixing stood in the corner cabinet and said with a smile: "I can't reward you anymore. This kid can't help but feel at ease during this period. He actually failed the midterm exam, and he still missed one..." Zhang Zhixing looked at Zhang Ke who was standing next to him and wanted to leave, and glared at him, letting him listen honestly.

"No, Zhang Ke's English and Chinese are better than Tang Jing's exams. Tang Jing won't bribe your kid, right?"

"The three subjects of English, Chinese and numbers are good. They said they have skills to panic, so they only mentioned these three subjects. I neglected to ask about other subjects. Today I met Wang Yanbin, the principal of No. 1 Middle School, who said that he would hold a parent meeting for freshmen next week. Then I realized that otherwise I would have to wait until I lost my parents' meeting to find out the truth..."

Tang Xueqian laughed and said, "Zhang Ke is at least confident that he will fool you and Ge Zhen and don't attend any parent-teacher meeting. He is a loss. He didn't expect that Wang Yanbin will be in close contact with us."

Seeing that his father put down the phone, Zhang Ke said with a shameless face: "No matter how you say it, you can get rid of your demerits. Besides, there are many skipping classes during this period, and it's not for your business? Sister Wanjing doesn't have time to care about the affairs here, and I'm worried about it. Besides, even if you skip classes, you will spend time making up for things you don't want. Sitting in the classroom is a waste of time. Isn't it still acceptable to guarantee three lessons?"

Zhang Zhixing looked helpless, of course he would not teach Zhang Ke a lesson with a stern face. He wanted to tell him the truth. The truth made him rush to finish it and said with a wry smile: "Then talk about the situation in the provincial capital these two days. Didn't you think about bringing you a gift?"

"I'm afraid you misunderstood, so I forgot it and didn't prepare it for Uncle Tang." Zhang Ke spread his hands.

"What can I misunderstand? I misunderstand that you are using something to please me because of your poor midterm grades?" Zhang Zhixing nodded sincerely when he saw Zhang Ke nodding, let his wife smile beside him, and shook her head helplessly, "Okay, tell me about your situation at Secretary Xu's house."

"My sister Wan Qing agreed to contract and operate the Xinguang Paper Mill. It was recently mentioned by Sister Wan Qing and Uncle Xu. This time, she also talked about this matter in the provincial capital. Uncle Xu's opinion is very clear. We cannot violate relevant policies and solve the problem as soon as possible. We must explain the employees of the paper mill."
Chapter completed!