Chapter 13 Harmony and Compromise
Lu Zheng, Bai Erqiang and Bai Xiaoshuang returned to Guozhuang, Qinglong at around 10 o'clock on Sunday night. Bai Erqiang was not lost, but was beaten up and his head was broken. After bandaging it in the hospital, he returned with a circle of white gauze wrapped around his head. The group of young men who beat people were not found. Bai Erqiang kept talking on the way back that he would not go to big cities or big cities, which made Lu Zheng laugh all the time, but in front of Bai Xiaoshuang, he had to give his former father-in-law some face, and he could only hold it all the way.
When he got home, Bai Xiaoshuang quickly cooked the porridge. Bai Erqiang lay on the kang in the east room and kept humming, as if he was about to die.
Lu Zheng went back to the west room. Since he moved in, he has purchased a lot of things, including sofa, coffee table and TV, which are all essentials.
However, Qinglong does not have a TV station, and the signal is very bad due to Dashan blocking. It can only receive programs from Guangning TV and CCTV broadcasts from Guangning TV. Moreover, there are quite a lot of snowflakes.
Today, it may be a problem with the wind direction, and there are snowflakes on the TV, so I can’t watch them at all.
Lu Zheng had to take the videotape that he had just exchanged for from Wushantao. After reading a while, he saw a TV series "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea" from Hong Kong, so he put the first disk into the videotape. Now he went to Wushan once and rented a bunch of videotapes to bring them back so that he would not have no TV to watch in Qinglong.
"The fairy mountain is separated by the sea of clouds, and the jade belt of the Xialing Mountains is connected. It is said that there are celestial immortals outside the world..."
The Cantonese opening song sounded melodiously, the familiar female voice and the familiar melody were slightly ethereal...
In my previous life, Lu Zheng also watched this TV series. When he watched it again, he felt a strange feeling in his heart, and an inexplicable loneliness arose.
People who are reborn are lonely, are they?
Lu Zheng thought to himself.
"Brother Zhengzi, the porridge is cooked, I'll cook two salted duck eggs for you." Bai Xiaoshuang knocked on the door and opened the curtain. At home, she became a little bolder and was not as restricted as in Wushan.
Lu Zheng smiled and said, "Come in the house and ask your dad to come here too."
"Okay." Bai Xiaoshuang agreed obediently and put down the curtain.
Then, Bai Xiaoshuang called her dad, and the pots and pans rang. After a while, Bai Xiaoshuang lifted the curtain and stuck her head in her little head, saying, "My dad said he would sleep and not eat."
"Then let's eat it, come on, eat it together, watch mythological films, it's pretty good." Lu Zheng pointed to the TV.
Bai Xiaoshuang agreed, and after a while, she brought in the sour rice porridge, pickles and salted duck eggs and placed them on the coffee table. The two salted duck eggs were both Lu Zheng's, and she ate pickles pickles pickles with radish.
It took Lu Zheng a while to realize this problem and asked, "Don't you eat salted duck eggs?" At this time, he sat face to face with Bai Xiaoshuang and drank porridge. Looking at the beautiful face of the little girl who was once her ex-wife, she felt a different feeling in her heart, and she was also a little warm.
"You cooked the salted duck eggs? Brother Zhengzi, are my pickled duck eggs delicious?" Bai Xiaoshuang looked at Lu Zheng with some anticipation.
Lu Zheng nodded with a smile: "Of course it's delicious. Actually, you have always been delicious when cooking, but I have never praised you before." As he said this, Lu Zheng felt a little bitter.
Bai Xiaoshuang's slightly tender little face shone a little and said, "I'm afraid you don't like to eat it."
Lu Zheng smiled and said, "How could that happen?" As he said that, he sent another salted duck egg to Bai Xiaoshuang and said, "You eat one too, I'll be enough."
"Then keep it for you and eat it tomorrow." Bai Xiaoshuang put the duck eggs back on the plate and said, "The duck eggs were bought for you."
Lu Zheng picked up the duck egg, smashed the short seller, and handed it to Bai Xiaoshuang: "If you ask you to eat it, I don't believe it, you will taste pickles."
Bai Xiaoshuang took it silently. Under Lu Zheng's encouraging gaze, she finally gently picked up a small piece with chopsticks, but did not put it in her mouth. She lowered her head and suddenly said, "Brother Zhengzi, do you know my mother?"
Lu Zheng was stunned for a moment, "Why do you think so?"
Bai Xiaoshuang drooped her little head and said, "I guess, you paid my dad to ask me to study and buy me clothes. It's so nice to me. So, I guess, you are my mom's friend. I heard that my mom's new man has made a fortune outside. You are in business and are so rich. Do you know my mom, and my mom asks you to take care of me?"
Lu Zheng was stunned. He really couldn't imagine that Bai Xiaoshuang's little head would have such a strange idea. But thinking about it, the poor child was aged 15, and Bai Xiaoshuang was about to be 15 soon. He should be very sensible. She could naturally see and feel it, and she would naturally think, why.
Children like to fantasy, especially when the mother ran away with someone. In her little thoughts, the mother still missed her and loved her very much. She should have been waiting for her mother to come back suddenly and the family of three continued to live the happy life before. And she was the messenger commissioned by her mother, and it was her mother who invited her to save her from the sea of suffering. It was not only the fantasy in her little head, but also her expectation, right?
She hoped that this was the truth.
"I don't know your mother." Although seeing Bai Xiaoshuang's face darkened significantly, Lu Zheng continued to say with a cruel heart: "Your mother may come back to see you in the future, but I definitely don't know your mother."
Thinking about it, Lu Zheng said slowly again: "But you look like a friend of mine, a very good friend. She is a very excellent doctor and a very beautiful girl. She is independent and charming. You, you look like her..." As she spoke, her heart felt a little sad.
"Then where is this sister now?" Bai Xiaoshuang asked curiously.
"Not here." Lu Zheng smiled and said, "So, sometimes, I have an illusion that you are her and she is you."
"How do I match?" Bai Xiaoshuang drooped her little head, feeling a little discouraged, and felt that she was under great pressure. How could Brother Zhengzi think that she looked very similar to a beautiful doctor sister?
"Okay, eat a few more salted duck eggs and you will be more beautiful than her." Lu Zheng smiled, lowered his head, and slowly drank the porridge.
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On New Year's Day in 1986, the news that a young and powerful giant among the five central giants spent the New Year with the garrison forces in the Xisha Islands made headlines in major newspapers.
Seeing this news, Lu Zheng remembered Hu Zi and his comrades who had been born and died. War is always a trauma to people, but time can heal everything. Perhaps it is time to gather with his comrades.
After New Year's Day, Ma Weiguo and others finally returned to Qinglong. At the same time, they brought inspiring news. The Provincial Party Committee and Municipal Party Committee agreed to evaluate the Qinglong Golf Course construction project. In a few days, the province will have an evaluation team.
On the afternoon of the day when Ma Weiguo returned to Qinglong, he walked to Lu Zheng's office.
At that time, Lu Zheng and Deputy County Magistrate Wang Nibang were discussing matters. When he saw Ma Weiguo coming in, Wang Nibang found an excuse and left the county magistrate's office.
Sitting on the sofa, Ma Weiguo took the water handed over by Lu Zheng and said with a smile: "I heard that you have not put aside the road construction matters during this period? The plan has come out? I also hired experts from Beijing to measure and plan. This is very good. I just said, if we are one mind, there will be no difficulties that cannot be overcome. Qinglong will develop better and better!"
Lu Zheng smiled and said, "I think that no matter whether Zhu Mingze invests or not, the road will always need to be repaired. I think construction can start after the New Year. If Zhu Mingze's funds cannot be in place, I will get some loans from the bank first. If it really doesn't work, I will borrow some money from Changming."
Hearing Lu Zheng's words, the smile on the corner of Ma Weiguo's mouth gradually faded.
After drinking a few sips of water, Ma Weiguo asked, "Where is Tu Panshi? What's going on with him?" Without waiting for Lu Zheng to answer, he said, "No matter what, I still understand Panshi. A very capable cadre is now a critical period for the development of our Qinglong. We need to unite and move forward hand in hand. We should save the capable cadres. We should put the overall situation first. Lu Zheng, are you right? "
Ma Weiguo spoke with a bright look on his face and stared at Lu Zheng.
Lu Zheng nodded slightly and said, "I agree with Secretary Weiguo's opinion."
Ma Weiguo smiled happily and said, "So, Zhao Pingfan, Matouying, tomorrow we will discuss it. I am relieved to be the official appointment you recommend to the cadre you recommend."
Now Zhao Pingfan is only in charge of the daily work of the Matouying Township Party Committee, and he has never had a clear statement about his position.
Ma Weiguo took the initiative to promote Zhao Pingfan, but Lu Zheng made a concession in the matter of placing the stone.
Despite this, Ma Weiguo was quite generous. Lu Zheng could feel that Ma Weiguo was intending to ease the relationship between the two. Obviously, in his heart, the golf course project can be smoothly carried out above everything else, so the stability of the Qinglong team is also above everything else. Ma Weiguo does not want the golf course project to be unexpected or even miscarried due to internal strife of the team. The emergency stop of the municipal party committee secretary Duan Zhongyuan is a lesson from the past.
However, the Party Secretary of Matouying Township is really a hot potato now. At least six brigades of the merged Matouying Township, the former Matouying Commune and Qingtuo Commune, demand that they continue to follow the collective agricultural model. As the secretary of this township, if they do well or not, they may lose their lives, because this is not just a matter of governing ability, but in the future, if they are involved in ideological confrontation within the party, then a small township party secretary will definitely end up being broken.
Perhaps after thinking about it, only Zhao Pingfan, who has always had close contact with these brigades but is not afraid of bearing the consequences, can be the Party Secretary well.
Chapter completed!