Chapter 33: Troubles and turns are everywhere

Men don’t bother with their big officials, just like women, and Cao Yongguo was amused by Xia Xiang: “You don’t want to go further? It’s hard. Like you, I also studied architecture, but I have been working in a construction company from the beginning. Later, from the project manager to branch manager, to general company manager, and gradually became the director of the Urban Construction Bureau. I never left the construction industry and kept spinning around the industry. My vision was too narrow. It was almost impossible to be able to be put outside the local area as the mayor. At least I don’t have the qualifications. The organization’s sentence lacks the experience of local administration can block the road. So Xia Xiang’s choice is right. Go directly to the local area to train, and your horizons must be much broader."

Xia Xiang nodded repeatedly, looking as if he was humbly educated. Cao Yongguo was very satisfied with the fact that he could tell him so much information about the officialdom today, proving that he had begun to slowly accept him in his heart. Of course, it would take time to really get close to Cao Yongguo's circle of interests. Unless he has enough capital, it would be nothing more than empty talk.

However, he also knew that although Cao Yongguo talked so much, the support from the superiors was not enough. If a key figure in the Standing Committee made efforts to support him, let him go to the prefecture-level city to be a deputy mayor for more than one or two years, and then be promoted to the mayor and then take over as secretary, he could also come up step by step. The so-called narrow vision and lack of qualifications. He has been circling in the construction circle as a reason for the Organization Department, or he can also say the opposite. Cao Yongguo has been the director of the Urban Construction Bureau for many years and is considered half an expert in the construction industry. Isn’t it just right for the deputy mayor in charge of urban construction?

As long as there are people above, things have two sides.

Xia Xiang also wanted to take the opportunity to test Cao Yongguo. Although he was grateful to him, he also had to carefully observe his character. Is it worth his help at critical moments?

Wang Yufen came out of the bedroom dressed in home. She just woke up and wanted to smile at Xia: "Xiao Xia is here, why haven't you come to your house recently? You often come to play in the future..."

She cleaned up the miscellaneous items on the table, picked up an apple core, and asked Cao Yongguo as if showing off: "No need to guess, I know that Xiaoxia must have peeled an apple. You are a piece of it, and he eats the core part in the middle, right? Look, Xiaoxia is a child who is sensible, considerate and careful. He is such a rare good child. Lao Cao, don't underestimate these small things. How many of the children you know in this bureau and that are so meticulous? They are all like the old man."

No matter how thick-skinned Xia Xiang was, he could not resist Wang Yufen's mother-in-law's gaze became more and more happy when she saw her son-in-law. She was embarrassed to joke at Cao Shuyan: "I'm embarrassed to be praised by my aunt. Tell me bad things about me, so that I can calm my pride and complacent mood."

Cao Shuyan showed two particularly cute front teeth: "Just be proud of you. My mother doesn't like to praise others. It's rare to see her praise me all year round. You have been pleased with her. If you were her son, Xiaojun and I would be out of favor."

Cao Yongguo laughed and didn't say anything, but his eyes fell on the apple core, which clearly showed more kindness and satisfaction.

This time I stayed for dinner, Cao Yongguo took the initiative to ask.

Xia Xiang didn't stay too long after the meal and offered to say goodbye. Cao Shune insisted on sending him downstairs. When he got downstairs, Cao Shune looked left and right, then took Xia Xiang's arm forward and whispered: "Tell me honestly, are you taking the opportunity to approach me in the name of designing a leisure square?"

Xia Xiang was grabbed by a pair of cold and soft little hands. Although he was worried about being seen by Cao Yongguo upstairs, he enjoyed it very much. Seeing Cao Shuyan's almond eyes wide open in the night, he couldn't help but feel fun: "You really think you are so charming? Little girl, don't think wrong. I'm looking for you because you are studying planning major and can divide the work and cooperate with me to complete the design. Remember, if you don't design well, you won't look for you anymore."

The brilliance in Cao Shuqian's eyes lit up and then quickly dimmed, but his hands did not let go of Xia Xiang's arm, and walked out of the gate of the construction committee dormitory community. She reluctantly let go of Xia Xiang's arm and shook her hand: "Come and pick me up tomorrow morning."

Xia Xiang stretched out his hand: "I only have a bicycle and can't carry you, a daughter."

"If you ask you to come, you will come, you will talk too much." Cao Shugui suddenly became unhappy and looked aggrieved.

"Xiao Guai, come out to enjoy the cool air? What's wrong? Is this arguing with my boyfriend?" A middle-aged woman walked into the door from outside and looked at Xia Xiang with a suspicious look on her face.

Cao Shuyan jumped up like a frightened person, as if she wanted to stay away from Xia Xiang. She said with a "ah" and after seeing the person clearly, she said shyly: "Hello Aunt Liu, I'm just out for a walk..." While speaking, she hid her little hand behind her and waved her hard at Xia Xiang, meaning that she would let him leave quickly.

Xia Xiang didn't feel funny, so she turned around and disappeared into the night.

When Xia Xiang walked away, Cao Shuyan returned to the downstairs but did not go upstairs immediately. Instead, he walked around the downstairs a few times, picked up a branch, wrote down Xia Xiang's name on the ground, and then stepped hard: "Die Xia Xiang, Xiao Xia Xiang, let you go to Ba County. If you have the ability, you can run away a little. You did it on purpose, right?"

What Xia Xiang didn't know was that shortly after he left, Cao Yongguo made a phone call, then took a bus to a hidden residential community in the western suburbs of Yan City, changed his license plate at the guard office, drove into the community, took a few more turns, and stopped in front of Building No. 3.

Most people don’t know that this community without a name is called the Provincial Party Committee Courtyard No. 3 in the Provincial Party Committee, and the people living in it are all members of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee. Compared with the famous Provincial Party Committee Courtyard No. 1 and No. 2, the Courtyard No. 3 has never been known to the outside world, but insiders know that the Courtyard No. 1 and No. 2 are all ordinary cadres of the Provincial Party Committee. The real core senior figure lives in Courtyard No. 3 - a common community that does not look conspicuous from the outside.

Cao Yongguo went up to the third floor, came to Room 302, walked straight into the study, and said in a slightly respectful tone: "Minister Lu..."

Minister Lu has a medium figure, neither fat nor thin, and his standard national face, the most conspicuous one is his ears, with big ears and tumbling, and he stood up to greet him and took the initiative to extend his hand: "Yongguo, you and my friends for many years have said that they have to be casual when they come to me..."

Cao Yongguo was about to speak, Minister Lu waved his hand and squeezed his temples a few times: "You must be mentally prepared. Yongguo, I'm afraid the position of the Urban Construction Director is not guaranteed. The ideal consequence is the Surveying and Mapping Bureau. I did my best, but the pressure on it is too great. Secretary Gao's temper is really... Hehe, it's a headache."

Cao Yongguo sat on the chair, subconsciously grasping the armrest with both hands, and a hint of helplessness appeared on his face...

The next morning, Xia Xiang rode his bicycle to the construction committee dormitory and saw Cao Shuyan waiting for him at the entrance of the community.

Compared to Li Dingshan's socializing around and Jia Mao accompanied the driver throughout the whole process, Xia Xiang felt relaxed when he saw that he had not been away for a few days and decided to help Chu Zigao complete the leisure square project before leaving. Of course, the 20,000 yuan design fee that Chu Zigao promised was a considerable income, and he and Cao Shugui each had half of it, and there were also 10,000 yuan. In 1998, the per capita salary in Yan City was only more than 500 yuan.

Cao Shuqian wore a pair of blue jeans to cover her slender legs, but she could highlight her graceful figure more than a skirt. She casually wore a black T-shirt on her upper body, which made her naked skin look shockingly white. She also had a coat around her waist, as if she was deliberately showing off her slender waist. She raised her right hand from afar, and her five fingers were almost white and transparent by the sunlight.

It is not close to Chufeng Tower from the construction committee dormitory. Fortunately, Cao Shunei is not heavy. Xia Xiang is riding his bicycle hard in the scorching sun, but he doesn't feel tired. Cao Shunei carefully grabbed the corner of his clothes with his hands and did not wrap around his waist, which may be that he was still angry with him.

A few days ago, Xia Xiang called his parents and told him that he was going to follow Li Dingshan to Ba County. His parents did not object, but they just repeatedly told him to act carefully. Although his father, who has been an ordinary worker all his life, has never been an official, he doesn't know where he heard the saying, "The officialdom is sinister and he dies step by step, so that he must act low-key, don't show off, and do his part."

Since his rebirth, he has never met his parents and said he didn't want it to be fake. However, there have been too many things recently and he has always been worried about the various factors that affected Li Dingshan's decision. He has been delayed until today. He originally planned to spend two days to help Chu Zigao design renderings and then go home. However, he called him again yesterday, but his parents refused to let him go home, saying that everything was safe at home, and there was no need to make a lot of trouble and let him work with peace of mind.

Parents’ hearts, missing their children is a concern, and not letting them go home is also a fear of their own suffering all the way, and it is also a concern from the heart.

Just as he was thinking about it, when he was waiting for a red light at an intersection, a Toyota car happened to be parked in the motor vehicle lane next to him. Several young people opened the window and whistled at Cao Shuyan: "Beauty, the sun is so poisonous, you are so aggrieved by riding a bicycle. If you are tanned, you will feel sorry for your brother. Why don't you come in the car?"

"The boy riding a bicycle is so naughty. Such a beautiful woman insists on putting her in the sun. I really don't know how to cherish her. Why is such a beautiful cabbage called a pig? It's so heartwarming."

"Hey, stinky brat, give me your girlfriend, I'll give you 100 yuan, how about it?"

"I paid 500 yuan, how about a boy? Have you ever seen so much money?"

Xia Xiang had not reacted yet, Cao Shuyan jumped out of the car, walked to the window a few steps, opened the water bottle in his hand, sprinkled all the water in the bottle on these people, and said angrily: "Go calm down and let you bad people know what politeness means!"
Chapter completed!