"Looking for a house?" Lu Xueyou couldn't help but feel embarrassed. In fact, there are not many houses for rent in small towns like Qinglong? Even if there are, Lu Xueyou can't get access to this kind of information.

"Oh, it's a pity that there is only one room at home. In the middle of winter, I can't go to the wing room." Lu Xueyou was really in a difficult situation.

Lu Zheng smiled and said, "Okay, let's go out to find a small restaurant to have a few drinks. Let's talk about the house after all."

Lu Xueyou suddenly slapped his forehead and said, "Yes, I have a coworker. He should have an idle house there. He was fired last year. It was quite difficult. If you rent his house, he will definitely rent it out. I don't know how to help him..." Speaking of this, he said to Lu Zheng: "Zhengzi, don't worry, I'm not using you as a favor. I will give you this rent."

Lu Zheng laughed and said, "The same."

Lu Xueyou said: "If I say I'll leave, don't leave. Don't talk about this first. It's still early now. Let's go to see the house first and settle the matter quickly."

Lu Zheng nodded slightly.

"That place is called Guozhuang, which is only four or five miles away from the county town. Guozhuang Commune...ah, now it is called Guozhuang Township. It is on the street of Guozhuang Township. There is a road, which is very easy to walk on. If you look back, you will find a car for you. In fact, if you walk like this two steps, just take a walk, it will be considered exercise." After leaving the house with Lu Zheng, Lu Xueyou went to the shed to push the cart, and said while walking.

Lu Zheng smiled and said, "Okay." Most of the towns in Qinglong County are family resident courtyards and public housing, so it is really hard to rent a house. I guess I could only find a bungalow in the suburbs. I also said, "Brother, I drove here, take you there."

Ah? Lu Xueyou was obviously stunned.

When Lu Zheng came out and saw a car outside, Lu Xueyou was even more surprised and said, "Zhengzi, is this your car?"

Lu Zheng nodded: "My sister bought it for me."

Lu Xueyou was silent. Thinking about Zhengzi was restless when he was a child, now, he doesn’t know what kind of friends he has made.

After getting into the car, Lu Xueyou said for a while: "Zhengzi, we must be down-to-earth."

Seeing his earnest gaze, Lu Zheng couldn't help but feel warm and nodded slightly.

Although the asphalt road has been disrepair for a long time, it is not difficult to walk. After leaving the county town, it was less than ten minutes before it arrived in Guozhuang. The asphalt road passed through this small town.

Immediately, under the command of Lu Xueyou, the "Little Potato" turned into the lower road. Although it was winter, the ruts that were crushed by bicycles in the rainy season had been air-dried, forming potholes unique to the dirt roads in rural villages.

"Stop, this one." In front of a low courtyard, Lu Xueyou got off the car and said, "I'll go in and take a look first and try his words."

It was dark early in winter, and the lights of the little potatoes were dazzling. Voices were heard in the yard: "Who is outside?"

Lu Xueyou then smiled and shouted, "Old Bai, it's me." He walked over and pushed open the iron door without a lock. Then, laughter and voices came from the yard.

After waiting for about four or five minutes, Lu Xueyou walked back. A middle-aged man was following him, about forty years old, dressed in a typical peasant dress, with his hands in his sleeves, his green pants and legs, and his nod and bowed a little bit vulgar.

Lu Xueyou smiled and said to Lao Bai: "This is what I said. No matter how you look at it, people will be upright at first sight. Keeping it will not cause trouble for you." He also said to Lu Zheng: "This is Lao Bai, Bai Erqiang."

Bai Erqiang looked at Lu Zheng, laughed and said, "Everything is good, all is good. Zheng... Brother Zhengzi, let's go in and see the house?"

Bai Erqiang led the way, and Lu Xueyou and Lu Zheng followed behind and entered the yard.

"Oh, this second-leader is a good person, but since last year Secretary Ma came to do the 'contracting', he was fired by the new factory director, and his wife ran away with the others. He seemed to be stimulated and became more and more concerned about money." Lu Xueyou sighed and muttered to Lu Zheng.

There are two cherry trees in the yard, three main rooms, and peppers and corn are hung on the walls next to the window. However, it is quite neat.

Bai Erqiang brought Lu Zheng and Lu Xueyou to the west room, which was a very clean room, desk, chairs, red cabinets, and furniture.

Bai Erqiang gestured in the room and said, "Look at it, these furniture are not old, but when you look at Guozhuang, are there any cleaner than ours?"

Lu Xueyou smiled bitterly and said, "Isn't your daughter sensible yet? I'll help you clean up this home every day?"

Bai Erqiang laughed and said, "That's right, don't look at whose daughter?" He said to Lu Zheng again, "Zhengzi, do you think it's okay? This is my daughter's room. If you want to be satisfied, I will ask her to move to the backyard and live with her sister tonight."

The air in the room was refreshing and refreshing. Lu Zheng nodded and said, "Okay, I just didn't cause you trouble, right?"

Bai Erqiang kept paying attention to Lu Zheng's expression, and sighed at this time, saying, "I must have had trouble. You don't know Zhengzi. My elder brother's house in the front yard is like an enemy. Xiaoshuang lives in her cousin's house in the front yard, and she must be angry, but there is no way. I have no job or income now and have to subsidize my family. I can't really ask Xiaoshuang to work in the city, right? She is still young and not old enough."

Lu Xueyou frowned and said, "Don't you have any land?"

Bai Erqiang smiled and didn't take any trouble with Lu Xue, and said to Lu Zheng: "So I'm reluctant to give up my love, and I'm looking at Xuejia's face. I rent the house to you, but in this way, I don't bargain, it's 10 yuan a month." Obviously, seeing that Lu Zheng was very satisfied, he set the price on the ground.

Lu Xue opened his eyes wide with anger: "Old Bai, don't you just go and grab it!"

Bai Erqiang spread his hands: "If you don't rent it, forget it."

Lu Zheng laughed and said, "Brother Bai, I don't rent a house, but I don't have a house. If I don't rent a house for a year or two, someone will come to ask. After all, you don't rent the entire yard, and the couple who rent a house look down on you. So if we compare it to a buying and selling relationship, it's called the buyer's market. I dominate it, and I have the final say."

Bai Erqiang rolled his little eyes and felt vaguely that this was the case.

Lu Zheng said again: "Let's do this, the entire yard of your farmhouse in the suburbs of Qinglong is rented out now. The market price is about 50-70 a year. You are remote from the county town and only rent one room. I was not very satisfied with it. If you want to live for a month, just check it out. If you really want to rent it out, I will try to live in it for a month. Look at your house, it's clean, so it's 5 yuan. If you want to agree, we will sign the contract. If you don't agree, forget it."

Seeing that Lu Zheng wasn't calling him, Bai Erqiang immediately became angry and said helplessly: "Okay, 5 yuan is only 5 yuan."

Lu Zheng nodded and said, "Then I can move in one day."

Bai Erqiang stretched out his hand: "As long as you give money now, you can stay tonight!"

Lu Zheng and Lu Xue were speechless.

...

Finally, Lu Zheng and Bai Erqiang agreed that Lu Zheng could move here on Tuesday night. Bai Erqiang agreed to Lu Zheng's request to change the doors and windows and lock them himself.

On the way back to the county town from Guozhuang, Lu Xueyou sighed again. He said that Bai Erqiang became almost unrecognizable, and said, "I am really a little worried about him now. Don't let your things go smoothly in the future. Zhengzi, don't look at my face. Looking back, I'll look for you again?"

Lu Zheng nodded: "Well, let's live here first, let's look for it here, is there any more suitable ones?"

However, the Qinglong man, surnamed Bai, Lu Zheng vaguely remembered someone and sighed softly in his heart.

When he arrived at Lu Xueyou's doorstep, he saw a light on in the yard. Lu Xueyou smiled and said, "Your sister-in-law is back."

Lu Zheng said: "That's what I need to see. I heard that my sister-in-law is quite beautiful."

He stopped the car and followed Lu Xueyou into the hospital. Then he heard a cry of a sudden shout: "Where are you dead?" In front of the main hall, a young woman like a tigress standing with a hip on her hip. In fact, the young woman was graceful and pretty, but her stunning momentum really destroyed her overall image. She looked more like a shrew.

Lu Xueyou seemed to have become accustomed to it and said with a smile: "Look, you're angry again. I'm here, Zhengzi is here, I'm going to find a house with him."

Lu Zheng knew that this must be his sister-in-law Ai Fang. He had never seen her during the time he stayed in the guesthouse. He smiled and said hello: "Sister-in-law."

Ai Fang looked at Lu Zheng, and from the confusion in her eyes, she obviously didn't know who Zhengzi was. Lu Xueyou should rarely mention Guangning's hometown with her.

"Then you should wait for me to come back, right? I thought you were kidnapped!" Ai Fang said angrily, but with an outsider, her face calmed down, she smiled at Lu Zheng, and said, "Did you have a meal? Your elder brother is careless."

Lu Xueyou muttered: "I left a note, I put it on the coffee table..." He was immediately glared at by Ai Fang and stopped talking.

Lu Zheng smiled and said, "In this way, you can have sex with your elder brother. I have something to do, so I will leave first." Although this sister-in-law was polite, she didn't seem to be a good person. Why bother here to be annoying?

Who knew that Ai Fang frowned and said, "Zhengzi, right? Did you misunderstand me when you see me like this? Your elder brother's friend, ask me when did I treat you badly? No, I'll leave after dinner!"

Lu Xueyou said next to him: "Zhengzi grew up in my family, just like my younger brother."

Ai Fang said, "Isn't this a divorce? My brothers are here, it's okay to not have a meal? Well, your brothers come into the house and chat, I'll cook." He asked Lu Zheng again, "Are you spicy? Are there any foods that are taboo?"

Lu Zheng smiled and said, "There is no taboo."

...

The next day was Sunday. Lu Zheng had nothing to do, so he drove out of Matou Camp.

Thinking of Lu Xueyou and Ai Fang, I feel warm now, and I am really happy for Lu Xueyou's elder brother and found a virtuous supporter.

I was originally planning to find a house today, so I called the Mechanical and Electrical School yesterday to ask for leave and went from Qinglong to Wushan. Due to the current traffic conditions, it would take four hours to drive Santana. So if you want to go to class, you can only go there on Saturday afternoon or evening the day before. Otherwise, you would have to get up at two or three o'clock and drive the night bus all the way. Then you will be at about seven or eight o'clock when you arrive at the school. Then you will enter the state of learning, which is tight and tired.

So since I took a leave, I just pretended to be a rest. But Lu Zheng couldn't get up and thought about it, so he got off the horsehead camp and Qingtuo to learn about the situation.

When I arrived at Matouying, it was over 11:00 in the morning. I had been here a few times and was familiar with it. Lu Zheng went straight to the state-owned hotel at the intersection of T-shirt and was about to deal with it. At this hotel, Lu Zheng still remembered that he scolded the old principal, Chief He, but he didn't know what Lao He, who had been cleared from the education system, was doing now.

Many things usually have policies and countermeasures. I think if no one below takes the opportunity to deal with Lao He, this person should be in a bad situation.

Outside the lobby of the hotel, there was a strong aroma of meat patties, and there were many people eating inside. As soon as Lu Zheng walked in, the eldest sister in a white apron greeted her with a smile on her face and diligently found a seat for Lu Zheng. She had long since remembered Lu Zheng. Lu Zheng could guess that this state-owned hotel must have been contracted to someone.

There were three or five tables of people sitting in the hotel, all dressed up by farmers, but Lu Zheng was wearing a gray Lenin costume and sat among them, which was not too eye-catching, but his temperament was obviously different. Even if others couldn't tell that Lu Zheng was a government official, at least he felt that he should be working in the unit at first glance.

After eating two meat pies, Lu Zheng came to the bar to check out. In the buzzing echo of the lobby, he heard a man in the elegant room next to the bar and spoke very well, as if he was Zhao Pingfan?

Lu Zheng almost never forgets the people and things he cared about, just like writing down the home addresses and contact numbers of veteran cadres in a car.

I came down to Matouying and was about to talk to Zhao Pingfan.

Then I heard someone in the private room slamming the table: "Zhao Pingfan! Do you, the deputy director, don't want to do it anymore?! Let me tell you, Secretary Ma said, whoever tells him that he will be unhappy for the moment will be unhappy for the rest of his life! If you do this work, do it! If you don't, stand by! What does it mean to represent the brigade secretary and the villagers? Who are you negotiating conditions with? What position are you on now?!"

After thinking for a while, Lu Zheng lifted the curtain and walked in.

There were sumptuous meals on the round table in the private room, and people sat around. Zhang Mingsheng, secretary of the Party Committee of Matouying Commune, was there. He had a friendship with Lu Zheng, and he drank wine in this restaurant.

Zhao Pingfan seemed not to be a guest at this table, and he stood at the door with his back facing Lu Zheng. Although Lu Zheng couldn't see his expression, he knew that he must be very excited now when he looked at his slightly trembling shoulders.

The person who scolded Zhao Pingfan was a fat cadre, who was fair and bloated. At this time, the cadre was looking at Zhang Mingsheng and said, "Secretary Mingsheng, your cadres in Matouying are inexplicable. They are really a local and local people. The kind of cadre they have, the kind of people they have!"

Zhang Mingsheng laughed with him, but a hint of unhappiness flashed in his eyes. Then, he saw Lu Zheng who was coming in with the curtains. He was stunned for a moment and stood up in a hurry: "County Magistrate Lu, why are you here?"

At the enlarged meeting of the county party committee standing committee members who announced Lu Zheng's appointment, almost all the party committee secretaries of Qinglong Townships (communes) attended. Zhang Mingsheng learned that the deputy director Lu of the Education Commission was today's new county magistrate half a year ago.

The people on the table immediately stood up one after another. Zhao Pingfan turned around and looked at Lu Zheng in surprise. He had always wanted to verify with Secretary Zhang Mingsheng whether the new county magistrate Lu Zheng was the former deputy director of the Education Commission, but he had never found a suitable opportunity. Unexpectedly, he guessed it correctly. Sure enough, it was this old acquaintance who he was particularly close to.

Lu Zheng made a gesture of tying down and pressing down: "Sit all, sit all." That's the case, but naturally a cadre immediately gave up his seat, and Zhang Mingsheng pointed to his main position: "County magistrate, come here to sit."

Lu Zheng smiled and said, "No need." Then he sat on the chair given up by the cadre closest to him, looked around everyone, and said, "Many old friends, some don't know each other."

Zhang Mingsheng knew what to do and hurriedly introduced everyone on the table to Lu Zheng. Of course, he only introduced three or five people, two deputy secretary of the commune, and three working groups from the county. The fat cadre was the leader of the working group of the county party committee who came down to handle the work of the withdrawal of the community and the construction of the township of Matouying. Ning Daoxian, deputy director of the Organization Department of the county party committee, has been in Matouying for more than a week.

Lao Ning did not show much enthusiasm when facing Lu Zheng. He reached out and shook hands with Lu Zheng with a reserved attitude, and called him: "Hello County Magistrate Lu." Moreover, he was the first among the cadres present to sit down. Lu Zheng urged the other cadres several times before they slowly sat back to their position.

Lu Zheng waved to Zhao Pingfan: "Pingfan, come on, you can sit down too."

The cadres who had their own smarter points hurriedly gave up Zhao Pingfan and pressed Zhao Pingfan on the seat.

Lu Zheng smiled and said, "What's wrong? I heard it outside, and it seemed that the discussion was very intense? What's the matter?"
To be continued...