There was a white Santana parked in the alley, Cheng Yue and Hu Mei asked Shen Huai to park at the entrance of the alley to let them down, and waved goodbye to Shen Huai.

It was not too late, but the subzero extreme cold made it impossible to see people in the streets, the street lights and trees were hazy, and the barking dogs on both sides could be heard non-stop—Shen Huai had already turned the car around the corner, but Hu Mei's vision was still unrecovered. , Cheng Yue shrank her neck, took Hu Mei's arm, and said, "Let's go, don't look at it anymore, you'll lose your soul if you look at it again."

"Who watched?" Hu Meijiao said angrily, "People are kind enough to send us back, but we can't sneak into the house as soon as we arrive at the door. How impolite..."

"You motherfucker, how dare you talk back to me," Cheng Yue smiled and was about to pinch Hu Mei's face, walked through the alley where the dogs barked, slipped back to the door with a smile, and said to Hu Mei again, " Sleep with me, the heating plant has been insane again these days, and the heating supply for the New Year's Eve is insufficient, don't you feel cold by yourself?"

"I think what's the use of being cold? You can still pull Gu Ziqiang to cover your bed, who can I pull?" Hu Mei said, "But today Gu Ziqiang drank too much, I should take up your warm bed..." Follow Cheng Yuejin In the yard, Cheng Yue's parents, sister-in-law and little nephew were watching TV in the hut that doubles as a restaurant. Hu Mei greeted with a smile and called home before washing up with Cheng Yue and going to bed.

Cheng Yue's house is also tight. Several families are crowded in the courtyard, and his house is separated from a small courtyard. Her brother and sister-in-law took her little nephew to a room, and her parents' bedroom was separated by half as a kitchen; a small shed was temporarily built in the yard to make a boudoir for Cheng Yue, just enough to fit a bed and a wardrobe. , a dressing table, but it also made Cheng Yue warm.

Maybe the shed was poorly built. Although the radiator was plugged in, the temperature in the room was not high. Hu Mei and Cheng Yue squeezed into the quilt, and it took a while to warm up.

"In this case, your wedding with Gu Ziqiang must not be delayed?" Hu Mei thought about what happened in the past two days, her head was so excited that she couldn't sleep, she curled up in bed and asked Cheng Yue about her wedding plan with Gu Ziqiang.

"This dead strongman, he didn't tell me about such a big thing as resignation. Everyone is here today, don't clean up, and show him another day." Thinking of this, Cheng Yue was still a little annoyed, and he said again, "The wedding date has been set, and it must be concluded. Either rent a house first, or he will come and squeeze this small shed with me, maybe after two years, I can really make it out."

The three brothers in Gu Ziqiang’s family can only sleep in one room to this day. Whoever wants to get married will move out and live there. The family can’t squeeze in a wedding room. Many things can only be discussed from the perspective of power. Cheng Yue is not too worried about this. She asked Hu Mei: "You just called home, and you seem to be a little unhappy listening to your tone, what's the matter?"

"Isn't it because of that? My mother persuaded me to reconcile with the man surnamed Zhao again; the man surnamed Zhao went to our restaurant at noon, knowing that you and I didn't go to work today, and called my house to tell me, my mother You've been nagging me about this for a long time," Hu Mei said, "You talk about emotional matters, can you be forceful?"

"..." Cheng Yue smiled and said, "The twisted melon is really not sweet, but I have something to tell you."

"What's up?"

"Shen Huai said that the blind date was dissatisfied with him, but no matter what, they are also children of wealthy families, and we are people living in different worlds..." Cheng Yue said.

"I know..." Hu Mei sighed faintly, and hugged Cheng Yue's body tightly to make her body warmer.

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Shen Huai didn't know the conversation in the courtyard. When he returned to his aunt's house on Xisi Street, he received a call from his aunt from Jiangning. He heard that Cheng Yi was "very satisfied" with him and was willing to "look everywhere". .

This should be a fairly positive signal, but when Shen Huai called Cheng Yi in the morning to thank him for what happened last night, he could hear Cheng Yi's tone was deliberately cold, as if he was afraid that he would cause something unnecessary. Misunderstand.

Shen Huai also knew that the so-called positive signal was nothing more than Miss Cheng's procrastination plan, but he was so eager not to tell others about it.

Gu Ziqiang and the others had a detailed discussion with Song Hongjun about the follow-up matters of setting up the factory, and Shen Huai was only responsible for building bridges. During the next two days in Beijing, he and Sun Yalin visited the person in charge of Yexin Bank in Beijing, and on the sixth day of the new year, the staff of the General Institute of Mining Management officially went to work after the annual leave, and came to the door to communicate the technical transformation of the new project steelmaking line. As a matter of fact, on the sixth day of the new year, I took an evening flight and returned directly to Donghua.

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It has been snowing in Donghua for the past two days.

Seeing that the temperature was six or seven degrees higher than that of Yanjing, but when I got off the plane, I was wrapped in the swirling cold wind.

Fortunately, Song Tong has spent three winters in Jiangning and has adapted to the wet and cold winters in the Jianghuai area.

As usual, Shao Zheng drove to the airport to pick them up. Shen Huai arranged for Song Tong to live in Peng Yue International, considering that the accommodation conditions at the Zhuxi Hotel were still poor.

The Zhuxi Bridge is almost complete, and the asphalt pavement is also paved with two layers of coarse material. Since Donghua belongs to a rainy area, the entire road needs to be opened for two to three months to maintain full penetration, and then the final completion is completed, but the traffic has already been completed. Not a problem.

From the airport, you can take the Dongpu Highway for about five kilometers, and then you can turn on the Meihe Highway in the north extension, and then walk for two kilometers, which is the township of Meixi Town.

The northeast corner of Meixi Town has not been renovated, and they are all low-rise bungalows. However, the pavement of the northern section of Meihe Highway has not been fully paved, but the landscape belt on both sides of about 20 meters has been transplanted in advance. The evergreen trees transplanted after autumn have a high survival rate. Under the shadow of the trees, when you turn from the Dongpu Highway, you don’t feel that the northeastern part of Meixi Town is dilapidated and shabby. The adobe huts in the villages along the road are in danger of renovation. The impoverished farm houses were demolished first.

After entering the town, the right side is the factory area of ​​Ziluo Home Textiles, and the left side is the newly-built small and medium-sized enterprise park; then turn to the south and turn to the east-west Zhuxi Avenue. The newly-built office building area between them; further west, Xinmei New Village is on the south side, Zhuyuan Garden is on the north side, and after the Zhuxi Bridge is the Pengyue International Hotel.

Pengyue International Hotel has been redecorated, and has also signed an agreement to hire a new hotel operation team. Everything has been transformed into soft and hard service equipment according to the standard of a three-star hotel, waiting for the official operation of Zhuxi Avenue after the opening.

After getting off the airport, when the car stopped in front of the porch in front of the Pengyue International Hotel, where the lights were beautifully illuminated, Song Tong jumped out of the car and said with emotion, "Everyone said why Donghua can't do it, I don't think so. Is this the suburb of Donghua? Looking along the road, I don’t think it’s worse than a big city…”

Shao Zheng helped take out the salute from the back-up car. Hearing Song Tong's praise of the well-built Meixi Town, he said with a smile: "Back then, Secretary Shen insisted that the construction of street shops on both sides of the newly built main road was prohibited, and many people in the town were I don't understand; building some street shops and selling them can at least recover some of the cost. But listening to Miss Song's praise, it's true that Secretary Shen has a vision..."

"People, there is a saying that white covers a hundred ugliness. To cover up poverty and backwardness in the countryside, you need to plant a variety of trees," Shen Huai said with a smile, "There are not many places in Meixi Town that can be planted with forests. In addition to leaving a wider forest belt, it is necessary to see a variety of trees that are inserted into needles, and then improve the urban hygiene, and the towns that are more dilapidated can be cleaned up like the big girl and the little daughter-in-law. Love..."

"Your thoughts are on the eldest girl and the little daughter-in-law; to use a metaphor, they all reveal their nature," Sun Yalin threw the backpack to Shen Huai, rubbed her waist and shouted tired, "It's really uncomfortable to sit on a small plane, and I won't do it again in the future. I went to Yanjing with you..."

At this time, Zhou Zhibai and Zhou Yu came out of the hall to greet them, "Wow," Song Tong exaggeratedly wanted to scream, grabbed Shen Huai's arm, and asked in a low voice, "Donghua is really handsome! Who, are you married, do you have a girlfriend?"

Shen Huai tapped Song Tong's head with a smile, and said, "You have the backbone of Miss Song's daughter, don't you think? You are like a village girl who has never seen the world. I feel ashamed to walk with you."

He had to admit that the Zhou brothers and sisters were really beautiful and handsome, with good genetics from the Zhou family, and Zhou Zhibai was extra coquettish. In such a cold weather outside, he wore a navy blue four-row shirt. Buttoning the suit, the whole looks tall and straight, and it is really a shelf product that attracts big girls and little daughters-in-law to commit nympho.

Shen Huai helped Song Tong and Sun Yalin with their luggage, and in addition to being over-smoking and drinking in Yanjing these days, it was like following a little valet.

Shen Huai tapped Song Tong on the head and waited for Zhou Zhibai and Zhou Yu to come over and introduce them.

When Shen Huai and the others took the plane from Yanjing, it was already dark, and it was almost nine o'clock when they had dinner on the plane.

Shen Huai didn't think that Song Tong would startle anyone on the first day he arrived in Donghua, but since Song Tong was arranged to stay at Peng Yue International Hotel, he called Zhou Zhibai in advance, but he didn't expect Zhou Zhibai to wait here in person. With them coming, I didn't expect Zhou Yu to be here too.

Shen Huai shook hands with Zhou Yu casually, and said with a smile, "Why is Minister Zhou also in Peng Yue?" Holding Zhou Yu's hand, he felt that the hand was warm, tender and soft, and he could not wait to hold it in his hand. Don't let it go.

"Qingqing's grandfather invited a table of guests in Pengyue. They just left after dinner; I heard District Chief Shen, you guys came back today, so you just waited here for a while." Zhou Yu didn't listen to the timid response, feeling that Shen Huai was pinched. She used her hand a little harder, then pulled it back, for fear that the kid would molest her on the spot.

The small plane was so uncomfortable that Song Tong felt tired after arriving at the hotel; it was inconvenient to leave Song Tong in the hotel alone, and Sun Yalin didn't want to go back to the cold and unattended home, so she sat down with Song Tong. .

After settling down here, Shen Huai asked Shao Zheng to go back first, and he could take Zhou Yu's car back to Wenshan Garden together. (83 Chinese Network)