Everyone in the room was silent, and no one continued to speak.

Click, click, click

There was a crisp clicking sound, and the clock above the window of the conference room was still walking, and the light softly shone through the translucent material of the roof, filling the conference room.

Michelle never looked away, and continued to stare at Le Xiao, she was a little unbearable in her heart at this time, but she had to do it, what happened last night really shocked her a lot, the little girl in front of her, without thinking about any consequences, spoke on behalf of the department.

Originally, the meeting could have been terminated, but Michelle did not do this, and so did Locke, she knew very well that Locke was still waiting for this little girl to speak, because she knew that Locke had some expectations for this little girl in his heart, so he would propose the need for a plenary meeting of the chief of the section and the secretaries after he finished it.

What exactly do you want to confirm?

Michelle swept Locke's serious face with the corner of her eye, the atmosphere in the entire conference room was a little solemn, and no one wanted to leave the table, they were all looking at the little girl in front of them, as if they wanted to hear the answer from her mouth, whether it was verbal stimulation or data torture, the result was actually settled last night.

First pacify the barrier area, plus the relationship between the rioters in the city, completely solve the problem of the internal rioters during the pacification period, and then return to the outside, the section chiefs and secretaries present know that if the war really started last night, I am afraid that there will be no sunshine in the city today, and only war will be replaced by war.

Now that the meeting is not over, Michelle knows very well that this little girl's series of actions last night may have made a slight change in everyone's hearts, and it is this small change that makes the meeting not end early, what everyone is looking forward to, maybe really see something different from this little girl.

But the speech just now disappointed Michelle, and it was not simply that she couldn't do three words to make things end.

"Okay, Secretary Lexiao, since you don't have any opinions, the meeting ......."

Locke was just about to get up as he spoke, but at this time, Le Xiao spit out two words.

"Wait!"

A little bit of Le Xiao raised his head, and the sadness that he couldn't suppress anymore turned into two lines of tears and slipped down his eyes.

"It's not like crying can solve the problem now, Secretary Lexiao, even if you wash your face with tears every day, things won't get any better."

Locke Jiahui said, and none of the section chief secretaries present showed a smile or a relaxed expression, and still looked at Le Xiao seriously.

"Once, when I first sat in this position, it was when the problem of the Barrier Zone began, and every month I would go to the guard station and witness one after another citizen rank 0 or some long-term offender walk across the Crying Bridge, and I thought that one day, when the food production in the city increased, these people who had been driven out by the existing social system would return to the city."

With a relaxed smile on his face, Locke stood up and walked slowly towards Le Xiao.

"But 50 years have passed, the people who were expelled 50 years ago, but none of the people who came back, once someone said, it was the newly born who deprived them of the right to come back, and the barrier area began to die day by day, until now, the problems have piled up to the point that no one can solve them, no one wants to poke them, the people who decided the tragic fate of the barrier area more than 50 years ago are still living in the sun, and they can easily solve the problem, but no one wants to be an executioner, and they are not willing to decide the life and death of others, So they chose the compromise method of exile, the city was already overwhelmed, and everyone was exhausted to solve some problems, but unfortunately there were more and more problems. ”

Locke stood beside Le Xiao and looked at her with a smile.

"What you did last night is qualified as a person, but as a secretary who represents the entire affairs section, it is not qualified!"

For a while, Locke's words became serious again, Le Xiao trembled slightly, and tears overflowed uncontrollably.

"The 24 people here, as well as the section chief Jean who did not attend the meeting, everyone is paying blood and sweat for the city, so the city can move forward, to be peaceful and stable, this is not a place where you realize your values and dreams, but a place to decide the future of the city, as the secretary of the 13th section, you made a speech last night, it was a dereliction of duty, because of your speech, we will leave what we are doing today and come here, and now we just see you crying! What we want to see is not that you cry in front of us like a little child, but that we know your plans! ”

Le Xiao trembled slightly, kept sniffing, wiped her tears with her hands, she stood up and bowed to everyone.

"I'm sorry!"

Locke raised his head, squinted his eyes, his head was full of everything in the past, he had failed many times, every time he was severely taught or even scolded by his boss, he also wanted to cry, and he really cried secretly a few times, and was seen by Jean again, when Gene teased him and told him with a smile.

"The reason why the tears will flow out is because you are hurt by your own determination, if you haven't given up, continue to move forward with determination, until the determination breaks through your chest, you will find out how ridiculous the crying self in the past is, I am from the past, believe me right!"

A hand pressed on Le Xiao's shoulder, and Locke turned his head and stared at Le Xiao seriously.

"Answer us, Secretary Lexiao, where do you think the feasibility of the establishment of the agricultural base is?"

For a moment, Le Xiao's eyes widened, his head was full of everything he had experienced in the past 26 years, and he was spinning in his mind like a marquee, but at this time, Le Xiao recalled the afternoon when he was working in the farmland of the agricultural department.

The aunt, who didn't care about herself at first, finally helped her, and the clerk of the 12th department, drove her off, and then she met Jean, and on that long slope, she crawled with difficulty, but in the end it was a hand that pulled her up from the ground, and that was where it all began.

The pattern of oranges on her right arm is so bright, Le Xiao still remembers that day, the first time she talked to Jean, Jean gave her half an orange, and she tasted it for the first time that she had never tasted in this world, some sour and some sweet.

"I can't do it alone!"

Le Xiao looked at Locke Jiahui in a daze, and his originally dim expression began to brighten.