Yao Xuefei said faintly: "My husband was snatched away, and my love is gone, I feel that life is boring, my whole life is gray, and I am going to die...... Li Rui laughed and said: "Don't you play with me Qiong Yaoti, okay?" Yao Xuefei was silent for a moment, suddenly thought of something, and said excitedly: "Isn't Lu Qingman from the provincial capital, then she will definitely go to the provincial capital often, right? When will she go to the provincial capital, you will come to accompany me, okay?" Li Rui said: "That's what I think, I hope you don't worry." Don't worry, I will love you for the rest of my life. Yao Xuefei said angrily: "If you don't love me anymore, I will marry someone and let you taste the taste of your lover being robbed." ”

When he said this, Li Rui immediately thought of Li Xiaona's head, and his heart was a pain, and he didn't know when he fell in love with that girl, could it be from the moment he learned that she was not his niece......? Since they like each other, then she simply don't marry in the provincial capital, and stay in Qingyang to take care of her...... But wait, if you take care of her, what can you take care of her? Can you marry her and give her a family to rely on? Obviously, no, in this case, what face do you have to stop her from marrying?

He was thinking about Li Xiaona in his heart, so he called Dong Jieyu again, hoping to know some of Li Xiaona's psychological dynamics from her mouth, and the reason why he didn't ask Li Xiaona directly was because he was afraid of hearing something like "I am willing to marry Xu Gengnian" from her mouth.

Dong Jieyu said that Li Xiaona came over in the morning to ask for a leave, and then she hasn't seen her until now, so she is probably still doing a hard and complicated psychological struggle.

It stands to reason that he should be very happy when he heard this, after all, Li Xiaona didn't agree, but when he thought about Lu Qingman's theory last night, he felt that it was becoming more and more dangerous—if Li Xiaona didn't have the intention of marrying Xu Gengnian at all, why should he consider it now?

Dong Jieyu said sourly: "Don't worry about it this time, your Xiao Na didn't agree." Li Rui said depressedly: "Are you really stupid or pretending to be stupid?" Although she didn't agree, she didn't refuse, and she hasn't refused until now, but it's even more dangerous. Dong Jieyu snorted: "Li Rui, you have enough of you! There is only your Xiao Na in my eyes! It's been a few days, because your Xiao Na told me to get out of here and let me die, and today I said I was stupid, hmph, it turns out that you are this kind of person, I knew that I would ignore you." Li Rui smiled bitterly: "You are jealous again, how many times have I said it, I don't have the kind of dirty relationship with her you think." Besides, I'm joking with you, can I really scold you?" Dong Jieyu said: "Anyway, you haven't said that about me before, you just have a new person and hates the old one." Li Rui said seriously: "One, Xiao Na is not my newcomer, and second, you will never be my old one, you will always be my freshest and latest baby." Dong Jieyu scolded: "Oops, my big teeth are sour, disgusting, hang up!" After speaking, she hung up the phone.

Li Rui smiled at the phone, but when he thought of Li Xiaona, he couldn't laugh anymore.

Song Chaoyang quickly called him in and gave him a small task, asking him to go outside with Lao Zhou to buy several gifts with high specifications, and then rush to the provincial capital in the evening to report to the home of Huang Xinnian, secretary of the provincial party committee.

Li Rui was slightly surprised, and said in his heart that it was the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, and it would be Chinese New Year's Eve in the next day, and he would go to Secretary Huang's house tonight to report to work...... Is this in order?

Song Chaoyang saw his thoughts and sighed: "This is also no way, I and Secretary Huang were not available before, tomorrow is the Spring Festival, and it is not easy to come to the door, it happens that he is free tonight, so I have to rush over tonight." Fortunately, Secretary Huang didn't treat me as an outsider, otherwise I wouldn't have seen him at all years ago. ”

Li Rui's heart moved, and secretly thought, if he rushed to the provincial capital tonight, he would definitely want to stay, so why not take this opportunity to visit his father-in-law Lu Zhouxing a year ago? By the way, he also brought Lu Qingman with him, so that the old man knew that his daughter had not been wronged by living in Qingyang these days, and after thinking of this, he contacted Lao Zhou first after walking out of the house, and then packed up his things and went downstairs, and called Lu Qingman on the way to tell him about it.

Lu Qingman is also thinking about how to spend this year, if he is in Qingyang Li's house, then his father Lu Zhouxing will definitely be alone in the empty house, it must be extremely lonely and desolate, and if he takes his new aunt Li Rui back to the provincial capital, then the lonely and desolate person will be replaced by his father-in-law Li Jianmin, how to get it bad, it is a little dilemma, after receiving Li Rui's call, he thought about it and said: "You wait, I'll call our dad and ask him for advice." ”

Li Rui and Lao Zhou went out to buy gifts, and first went to his own dried fruit and cereals store and bought ten large gift boxes for backup. Among these ten copies, there is one copy of Huang Xinnian, secretary of the provincial party committee, one copy of his secretary Shi Peide, one copy of his father-in-law Lu Zhouxing, one copy of his secretary Yu Hongwei, and one copy of the boss Song Chaoyang's house, and the remaining five copies will be put in the boss's house, so that he can give gifts to guests during the New Year.

After putting the gift box in the car, Lao Zhou said: "If the boss goes back to the provincial capital tonight, then he will send another car." ”

Li Rui understood what he meant, with the advent of the Spring Festival, the leading cadres who gave gifts have begun to move, and leaders at all levels of units at all levels in cities, counties, and districts have either personally visited the door, or sent cadres from departments such as the hospitality office and the logistics office, under various banners, to give gifts to the city leaders in charge or directly under the banner. No matter how ruthless the city leaders are, no matter how stubbornly they refuse to do so, at the Spring Festival, the most important festival of the year, it is not easy to save people's face, and they can only accept it with a smile. Take the boss Song Chaoyang as an example, although he has refused many invitations and meetings these days, he was still given a lot of gifts. These people had already inquired about his residence, drove directly to the door of the VIP building, and did not pass through him, either contacting the person in charge of the VIP building, or contacting themselves, in short, after saying hello, they put the gifts they brought in a small warehouse in the VIP building.

Li Rui went to the small warehouse yesterday to see it, and it was already full, with everything, from eating to drinking to using and wearing. It is not an exaggeration to say that these gifts in the small warehouse can arm a convenience store. Of course, these things can't be kept in the small warehouse forever, and if the boss Song Chaoyang returns to the provincial capital tonight, he can take them back by the way, but the No. 1 car will definitely not be able to hold so many gifts, so he will definitely send another truck to accompany him.

In fact, the people who give gifts not only give high-powered city leaders like Song Chaoyang, but also people around leaders like Li Rui, although they have no real power in their hands, but they can help at critical moments, they also want to give a New Year's gift, even if they don't use him for the time being, they will also form this good fate first. Beginning on the 26th of the lunar month, the leading cadres of the municipal organs and the counties and districts began to send people to Li Rui's house to give gifts. Although these leaders intend to make friends with Li Rui, they are proud of their status, and it is impossible for them to personally rush to the home of a junior cadre at the senior level to give gifts, and they usually send office staff or secretaries and drivers to give gifts. And the gifts are all in the evening or at night, and there is no gift to the door in the daytime.

In the past few days, Lu Qingman has been impatient to receive gifts and welcome guests at home. When she used to live in the provincial capital, she could also receive some gifts every year, some of which were given to her father Lu Zhouxing, and some were given to herself, but the gifts given to her were in a minority. Although she served as a middle-level leader in the Organization Department of the Provincial Party Committee, firstly, the department where she worked had no real power, and secondly, she had a narrow mouth and no subordinate and subordinate units, so there were few gifts for her. Now that she is married to Li Rui as his wife, she sees that the gifts she received in a few days are enough for the sum of the years she originally received, and even the garage is full, causing Gao Zixuan's car to be parked outside, and this is only because her husband is the secretary of Song Chaoyang, the secretary of the municipal party committee, which caused her to be surprised, thinking that if her husband also becomes the secretary of the municipal party committee one day, then she simply don't live in her own house, and all the gifts are good.

Li Rui said: "Well, go back and talk to the boss, see what he means, you should send a car to send a car, you should pull it away, anyway, you can't keep it in the VIP building." ”

The two got into the car and continued to the next procurement location.

On the way, Li Rui received a call from Lu Qingman.

Lu Qingman said with some excitement: "Husband, I just told my father, and my father asked me to take my father-in-law to the provincial capital together, and celebrate the Chinese New Year's Eve together tomorrow night." Li Rui was surprised and delighted, he didn't expect that his father-in-law Lu Zhouxing had such a big courage and heart, and was willing to spend the Chinese New Year's Eve with an ordinary person like his father, and said: "Is it? That's good, that's a real family reunion." Lu Qingman said: "What should I do, I will drive Zixuan's car and take my father to go first?" Li Rui thought for a moment and said, "Don't do it, I'm really a little worried about you driving a long distance." In this way, after a while, I will say to Secretary Song, I will not take the No. 1 car, I will drive you and my father behind the No. 1 car, and when the car arrives in the provincial capital, you will drive my father home, and I will go to the house to meet you after I am busy with Secretary Song. ”

Lu Qingman was very happy and said, "Okay, listen to you, then I'll start cleaning up." Li Rui said: "Don't worry, I'm thinking about whether to bring some gifts to my father." This is also the New Year, we as children, we always have to show our hearts, I happen to go to the provincial party committee compound in the evening, I will go to see him by the way. Lu Qingman took the idea and said, "You don't have to go, I'll talk about it tomorrow night." Li Rui hesitated and said, "Is that appropriate?" Lu Qingman said: "What's wrong with that, it's all a family, and there are not so many etiquettes." Okay, you hurry up and get busy, I'll start picking up. ”