Chapter 104 Director Cao’s family affairs are hard to break

After Cao Shukin finished drawing the renderings and was recognized by the city, Wen Yang paid the design fee in one lump sum without saying a word. Cao Shujun received a reward of 10,000 yuan and was excited to buy a game console, but was confiscated by Cao Yongguo. The remaining tens of thousands were in the hands of Cao Shukin, but Cao Yongguo didn't say anything. However, when Cao Shukin proposed to come to the Regulations City, Cao Yongguo disagreed and firmly opposed it. In the end, it was Wang Yufen who argued with reason that Cao Shukin's trip to the Regulations City was considered to be successful.

From Cao Shugui's cute little mouth keeps jumping out, Xia Xiang heard a fact clearly. It turned out that Cao Shugui came to Zhangcheng City and was fighting for the name of visiting his grandfather and grandma.

The night breeze in Ba County was slightly cool at night. Cao Shuqian wore a one-piece dress similar to a pajamas. The skirt was like a big vest, without any waistband or curves. She wore it like a lantern on her body, and it floated around as soon as she walked around. The thin material was pressed against her body, which made her curves even more exposed.

Cao Shuyan obviously did not realize the fact that she was exposed indirectly. She put one hand behind her back and held her cheek with the other hand. She shook her head with great dissatisfaction and heartbroken and said, "My father is an old stubborn man. He has a bad relationship with my grandfather, so I am not allowed to come to the Circular City! He didn't think about it. I came to the Circular City under the name of visiting my grandfather and grandmother. He dared to insist on opposing it. He really thinks that my mother is air, and it's easy to bully me, right?"

Cao Shuyan pretended to be angry and looked cute. Her little mouth was pursed, her nose was wrinkled, and her eyes were trying hard to be fierce, which made people feel like a little girl deliberately making people laugh. Xia Xiang held back and asked, "It is best for younger generations not to say much about the matter between elders. After all, they all have their own positions. As their relatives, it is difficult to blame or favor either side, so they have to reconcile them as much as possible, right?"

"Oh, oh, I said Xia Xiang, how many years are you older than me? Three or four years old, why do I sound like I am a teenager, and I speak in a very old voice, just like my father's tone!" Cao Shuyan's liveliness and cheerfulness finally came back. She smiled and turned around Xia Xiang for a few times, then reached out to block her eyes, "I haven't seen each other for a few days, I'm mature again, and I don't know you anymore."

Xia Xiang smiled and took away her hand that was blocking her eyes: "Stop making trouble, girl, tell me Mi Xuan - where is your cousin in red?"

Cao Shuqian suddenly turned red and shook Xia Xiang's hand with a wave of his hand: "Take it away, hate it, who asked you to take my hand?" She remembered Xia Xiang's funny look in red swimming trunks, and couldn't help but tease him and said, "What red-clothed cousin, naming it randomly, it's so ugly. I remembered that you look in red swimming trunks, so ugly!"

Fortunately, Xia Xiang was thick-skinned and he hurriedly went into the water to wear a red swimsuit and pretended not to care. Now Cao Shuyan has brought up the old story again and has a beautiful pink face. He can't help but feel moved. He then reaches out and grabs her little hand: "Tell me honestly, are you playing tricks on me with her?"

Cao Shuqian's little hand struggled slightly, and stopped moving, allowing Xia Xiang to hold it in the palm of his hand. Her little hand was soft and continuous, like a ball of delicate wool, and felt good. She stretched out a finger and pointed it on her nose: "I? I don't, I am innocent, it's all Sister Xuan who insisted on teasing you... Sister Xuan, she is actually a good person, she is a little stubborn, unwilling to forgive others, and she loves to be picky. But she loves me the most. When I lived at my grandma's house when I was a child, she played with me every day and took great care of me, just like my own sister. Later, when she grew up, her father and grandpa had a bad relationship, so she came back less."

The two of them took a casual walk in the county party committee guesthouse, pulling their hands together for a while, and then separated inadvertently, and no one cared about it. Xia Xiang did not expect that Cao Shuyan was quite talkative, chattering endlessly, and had no intention of guarding against him at all, and also told the grudges between Cao Yongguo and his father-in-law.

In fact, it was nothing big. Cao Yongguo was assigned to the Provincial Second Construction Bureau as a technician at the beginning. He followed the construction team to the Regulations City and met Wang Yufen. Wang Yufen worked in the Technical Supervision Bureau of the Regulations City at that time. He had a good unit and was beautiful. He could be said to have first-class conditions in all aspects, but he fell in love with the young technician Cao Yongguo. Originally, Wang Yufen's father Wang Junyang wanted her to marry a local. With her conditions, it was no problem to find a young man who worked in the municipal party committee and government, but Wang Yufen was determined to marry Cao Yongguo.

Wang Junyang naturally refused and tried every means to stop the two people. Cao Yongguo was also stubborn and brought Wang Yufen back to Yan City in anger, and almost lost his job. Wang Junyang was the mayor of Xiqiao District, Zhangcheng City at the time, and had some connections, so he found friends from Yan City and wanted to persuade Wang Yufen to come back. Wang Yufen directly refused him, saying that if he didn't marry Cao Yongguo, no one would marry.

In desperation, Wang Junyang had nodded to agree. He didn't think Cao Yongguo was so good. He thought that it must be Cao Yongguo's sweet words that deceived Wang Yufen. She was obsessed with the idea that she had no status and no future. In the end, when Cao Yongguo and Wang Yufen got married, although Wang Junyang also attended the wedding, he still did not give Cao Yongguo a good look. He also claimed that if he really couldn't do well in the future, he could transfer his relationship to the Regulations City, and he could use the power in his hand to arrange a bright future for him.

Cao Yongguo rejected Wang Junyang's kindness and spent all his savings to transfer Wang Yufen's relationship to Yan City. However, he did not have the ability to let her enter the agency and only entered a company with average benefits. Since then, Cao Yongguo has worked hard and relied entirely on his own efforts to reach a high position step by step.

After getting married, although he didn't go much with Wang Junyang, he was peaceful every time he came back, at least on the surface. Especially after Wang Junyang retired, he left his leadership position and became much weaker. Later, Cao Yongguo became the director of the provincial bureau and became a department-level cadre. Compared with Wang Junyang who retired from the department level, he was already one level higher. When he went back, Wang Junyang no longer had the airs he used to be, and he was polite to Cao Yongguo and became intimate.

One year when he went back during the Chinese New Year, the whole family was drinking together. Wang Junyang drank too much and talked about the past. For some reason, he began to accuse Cao Yongguo of what he was wrong, saying that he was not good and did something wrong. If he did what he said, let alone the department level, he would be a deputy provincial level in the future, and even the provincial and ministerial level would not be a problem. The meaning of the words was revealed in and out of the way, of course, Cao Yongguo was not as good as him.

Cao Yongguo was despised by Wang Junyang for many years. After becoming the director, he certainly had to be proud. However, because he was an elder, he had to take him one step forward and flatter him a few words. Unexpectedly, Wang Junyang became more and more distorted. He actually said that if Wang Yufen stayed in the Regulations City, he would definitely marry a husband who would become the secretary of the listed party. The director of the provincial bureau is a department-level cadre, but he is far inferior to the mayor and the secretary of the municipal party committee. He has great power. After all, Wang Junyang still believes from the bottom of his heart that Cao Yongguo did not satisfy him.

Cao Yongguo finally got angry.

Although Wang Junyang's strong opposition was over many years, with Wang Junyang's attack, all kinds of humiliation from the past came to his mind. Cao Yongguo refuted Wang Junyang in person, saying that he would only be the district party secretary in his life. Even if he was in charge of the party, he was just a department-level cadre. His level was not high, and he could not see what many high-level people could see. The implication is that it is very inappropriate for retired department-level cadres to teach current department-level cadres a lesson from the past.

His words angered Wang Junyang. Wang Junyang slapped the table and issued an order to expel guests. Cao Yongguo did not give in and confronted him and led his whole family back to Yan City that night. Wang Yufen was caught in the middle and was in a dilemma. He wanted to stay, but was driven away by the angry Wang Junyang and told her not to enter the house forever.

Although later, under the persuasion of his family, Wang Junyang took the initiative to call Wang Yufen and asked her to go home for the New Year, and often come back to see her if she has something to do, which indirectly gave up her figure. After all, she was his biological parents. Wang Yufen forgave Wang Junyang, but Cao Yongguo refused to bow his head and never said he would go back to the city of Zhangcheng City. As well as Cao Shuyan and Cao Shujun asked to visit his grandfather and grandma, he would be very unhappy.

Every family has a difficult sutra to recite. Even in a high-ranking official family, there are many discordant voices. Xia Xiang sighed and suddenly thought of a question: "You haven't answered me yet. What kind of relative is your cousin in red?"

"Don't call her cousin red again, it's not nice!" Cao Shuyan said dissatisfied. Seeing that her hand was caught by Xia Xiang again, she threw it away with force, "You can just call her Sister Xuan, she is my uncle's daughter."

"Why aren't your surname Wang?" Xia Xiang was a little surprised.

After Cao Shugui shook Xia Xiang's hand away, he said a few words and hugged his arm unconsciously.

"It seems that there is an agreement between my uncle and aunt. In short, I don't know anything. Anyway, Mi Xuan's surname is her mother's surname..." The yard of the county party committee guesthouse is not small, and the street lights are still bright. Cao Shuyan's eyes were sharp. Just as he was talking, he suddenly saw someone coming from a distance and pointed his hand and said, "Look, my uncle is here..."

Apart from a flower bed, Mi Xuan and a bald man were walking towards this side. The two looked intimate and obviously had a close relationship. Bypassing the flower bed, they came to Xia Xiang and Cao Shugui. Before anyone could speak, the bald man made fun of Cao Shugui first: "My girl, she is more beautiful than before, which really makes my uncle envious... I didn't expect that you are also old to find a boyfriend, and time flies so fast."

Cao Shuqiu realized that his arm was still holding Xia Xiang and did not let go. He hurriedly let go and explained: "Uncle, don't get me wrong. I just feel a little cold. I borrow his arm to keep warm. Don't talk nonsense everywhere."

"Is my uncle a person who likes to talk nonsense?" The bald man responded with a smile, then looked at Xia Xiang again, with curiosity and scrutiny, and a touch of intriguing taste. "Secretary Xia, I didn't expect that we could establish such a close connection. I was really surprised. When the girl Xuan told me just now, I didn't believe it. I finally felt relieved when she saw the girl Kui just now."

Don't worry? Why don't he feel relieved? Does his words mean something else? Xia Xiang also lamented in his heart that the world is wonderful. The person in front of him is nothing but someone else. Wang Quanyou, member of the Standing Committee of the County Party Committee and Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Committee, never expected that he was Cao Shuyan's uncle!

Wang Quanyou is the backbone of the centrist. Speaking of Xia Xiang's understanding, he actually prefers Liu Shixuan more and is somewhat repulsive to Li Dingshan. At the Standing Committee, even if he does not object to Li Dingshan, at least he will not clearly support Li Dingshan on some major issues, and may even support Liu Shixuan.

Who knew that he was Cao Shugui's uncle, and I don't know what he said just now, was he relieved about the relationship between him and Cao Shugui, or was he hinting something else?

Xia Xiang had to smile with a shy face: "Secretary Wang, I'm lucky to meet, I'm lucky to meet. Shugui and I are alumni. She happened to come to Ba County for a trip. I just wanted to do my best to be a landlord. Then I discussed the design of a project together at night. Before I knew it, I discussed it now, mainly because I was too devoted to my work."

Cao Shuyan couldn't help but laughed out loud: "That's right, uncle, we are discussing the design of a landmark building in Yanshi Railway Station Square. The problem is very profound and the design is very complicated. You don't understand it if you say it, so I won't tell you. So you haven't seen anything and heard nothing, right?"

Wang Quanyou laughed and scolded: "Little slippery and he is still foolish with his uncle. You are still a little short of it. Don't worry, if you sue me or not, I won't tell your father. He is so stubborn and must have other ideas. How could I stand with him?"

Then I looked at Xia Xiang again and said, "Xiaoxia, Ba County is not as cold as Yan City. It is still relatively cold at night. Don't stay outside for too long. Be careful of catching a cold. It is easy to catch a cold. Well, I won't disturb you young people's chat. If you leave, go to my place to sit when you have time. Let me listen to the opinions of young people. Young people nowadays have a lot of ideas. Xuan Yatou has told me a lot about your deeds, which makes me very curious..."

Wang Quanyou waved his hand and turned away. His gentle smile made it difficult for Xia Xiang to associate him with the Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Committee who sat calmly at the Standing Committee. He and Li Dingshan have always believed that perhaps Zheng Qian would remain neutral on key issues, and although Wang Quanyou and Liu Shixuan are not close, it is reasonable. Maybe they will slowly lean towards Liu Shixuan in conflict and confrontation.

It is necessary to let Li Dingshan meet Cao Shuyan tomorrow and make her identity clear. As for whether Li Dingshan would think of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee behind Cao Yongguo and whether he would connect the line of Song Dynasty again, Xia Xiang was unsure, but since Li Dingshan knew that Cao Yongguo had a relationship with him, he would probably have some associations.

Each link can form a force that can be leveraged by each other. The more links, the wider the network of relationships will be.

The next morning, Xia Xiang told Li Dingshan about Cao Shuyan as soon as he went to work. Sure enough, Li Dingshan was very interested: "Cao Yongguo? I have heard of him. He is a scholar-type director with high quality. He has risen from the grassroots level to the high level, and has a solid foundation. I admire such a person more, and I can get to know him if you have the opportunity."

In front of Xia Xiang, Li Dingshan did not hide his true thoughts. He felt that Cao Yongguo had a great future, but he did not know that Cao Yongguo was being excluded by Gao Chengsong and was struggling. However, strangely, the news that Cao Yongguo was transferred to the Surveying and Mapping Bureau had been circulating for a while, and it has not been officially issued yet. According to Cao Shuyan's intention, it seemed that Cao Yongguo did not know what was wrong.

"I'll ask Chaodu for the inside story." After hearing Xia Xiang's news about Cao Yongguo's mobilization, Li Dingshan also felt that something was strange, so he called Song Chaodu in front of Xia Xiang.

This was the first time Xia Xiang saw Li Dingshan calling Song Chaodu.

"Chaodu, I am Dingshan, I'm going to ask you something..." Li Dingshan and Song Chaodu really had a close relationship. They didn't have to be polite at all. They just told Cao Yongguo straight to the point. Then he fell silent, listened quietly to the phone, with a confused expression on his face.

"Chaodu said that the provincial party committee standing committee member and propaganda minister Lu Yuanyuan, but strangely, Secretary Lu supported Cao Yongguo at a meeting, which surprised everyone." Li Dingshan was surprised when he saw Xia Xiang, and he knew that he couldn't believe it, because Lu Zhiyuan, deputy secretary, was the third-ranked third in the provincial party committee, second only to Provincial Party Secretary Gao Chengsong and Governor Ye Shisheng, who was in charge of the party and the masses, and had a great say in the appointment of cadres.

If Secretary Lu really wants to support Cao Yongguo, even if Cao Yongguo doesn’t get promoted, he can at least maintain the position of director of the Urban Construction Bureau and does not have to go to the Surveying and Mapping Bureau to retire. Then why is it that whether Cao Yongguo is really transferred to the Surveying and Mapping Bureau in later generations, or the current time and space, he is also uneasy in the position of director of the Urban Construction Bureau? It proves that the backstage behind him is not tough, so why did he suddenly get the support of Secretary Lu?

Xia Yao understood that history had unpredictable deviations.

Li Dingshan's next sentence made Xia Xiang even more stunned: "It is said that there is news in the province that Cao Yongguo may be appointed as the deputy mayor of Yan City, and then the next step is to be the Standing Committee member and the Executive Vice Mayor!"

Xia Xiang was so shocked that he could hardly speak. After a while, he said, "It's too sudden. Shu Yan didn't mention it to me. I guess she didn't hear any news, even if Director Cao didn't know anything."

Li Dingshan nodded: "It should be that the province is playing games, but when he hears Chao Du's tone, he should be almost inseparable. Secretary Lu has strong support, and Minister Lu spared no effort to express his support, but Secretary Gao has not made any statement for the time being, and others are waiting and watching, and no one has clearly opposed it yet."
Chapter completed!