First Secretary of Rebirth

Ling Wei arrived at Bai Dongxin's house on time with a bottle of wine in hand.

Everyone lived in the Standing Committee's House. As the secretary of the municipal party committee, Ling Wei rarely visited other people's homes.On the contrary, Bai Dongxin broke the officialdom routine and wandered around various houses from time to time.

As soon as Ling Wei entered Bai Dongxin's house, he smelled a tangy aroma.

Fruits and snacks are placed in the living room. A brass charcoal stove has been set up in the dining room next door. The soup inside is bubbling and steaming. The table is already filled with various vegetables and sliced ​​meat. It seems that we are going to eat hot pot up.

"Secretary Ling, please sit down." Bai Dongxin sat on the sofa in the living room facing him, and said with a smile, "I don't know what you usually like to eat. A hot pot is prepared at home, and everyone will be lively together."

"I'm not a taboo." Ling Wei took the fruit that Bai Dongxin handed over, and held it in his hand politely, "But today is very lively!"

"Yeah, it's rare that the child came back, and someone brought fresh mutton over, so I dared to invite the secretary to eat."

"I heard that there is a girl in your family? I haven't seen it yet." Ling Wei said politely.

"Oh, look at my memory, Bai Juan, come out and meet Secretary Ling!" Bai Dongxin yelled into the restaurant.

A crisp female voice answered, and then a slender young woman came out.

Behind the young woman was a man and a woman. The man was about her age and shy.The woman is 34 to [-] years old, and she is very dignified.

"Dad, are you looking for me?"

"Come and meet Secretary Ling."

The young woman rolled her eyes, stood in front of the sofa with a smile on her face, and bowed slightly to Ling Wei, "Hi Secretary Ling, I'm Bai Juan."

After Ling Wei nodded with a smile, she introduced the two people behind her one by one. She took the young man's arm and said with a smile, "This is my husband, Ma Tianning."

Ma Tianning smiled at Ling Wei and said, "Hello, Secretary Ling."

"Hello."

After the two met Li, Bai Juan took the dignified woman's hand again and said, "This is Tianning's cousin, Ma Tianhong."

After Ma Tianhong waited for Bai Juan to introduce herself, she took the initiative to reach out to Ling Wei, "Secretary Ling, I work in the Budget Section of the Finance Bureau."

Ling Weigang wanted to praise, but Bai Juan said with a hint of pride: "Secretary Ling, Sister Hong is still the chief of the budget department!"

"Oh?" Ling Wei was a little taken aback. It seemed that this woman was really talented, otherwise she wouldn't have been the section chief in such a key department as the Finance Bureau.

"Secretary Ling, are you surprised?" Bai Juan asked with a giggle.

"No," Ling Wei let go of Ma Tianhong's hand calmly, and said, "I hope that there will be more young cadres like Section Chief Ma in Annan City, the better, so that Annan's future will be promising." Turning around, he smiled at Bai Dongxin and said, "Really, Secretary Bai?"

"Of course." Seeing that Ling Wei had met Bai Juan and the others, Bai Dongxin said with a smile, "Bai Juan, ask your mother if the pot is ready? Don't let Secretary Ling starve you."

Bai Juan went briskly, Ma Tianning and Ma Tianhong sat on the sofa to accompany her.

Ma Tianning has a dull personality, and Bai Juan just formed two extremes, while Ma Tianhong is very generous, inserting a sentence or two in the conversation between Bai Dongxin and Ling Wei from time to time.

After exchanging pleasantries for a while, Bai Juan came out to invite everyone to a table, and Ling Wei, accompanied by Bai Dongxin, entered the dining room.

Everyone in the Bai family is very talkative, and the atmosphere at the table is not bad.

Bai Dongxin's lover, Sister Su, saw that Secretary Ling was still single, so she couldn't help asking a few personal questions about Secretary Ling.

"Secretary Ling, I always said that you are still alone?" Sister Su asked while feeding Ling Wei.

"Yes." Ling Wei said with a smile: "I'm used to living alone, so I don't think about anything else."

"Secretary Ling, don't think I'm a talkative big sister," said Bai Dongxin, who was seven or eight years older than Ling Wei, and his lover could also deserve the title of big sister. "Living at home here, it's better to have someone who knows what's cold and what's hot."

Ling Wei just laughed and didn't answer.

Sister Su tried to persuade both wine and food, and joined forces with Bai Dongxin and his daughter to stir up the atmosphere on the table.

Ling Wei sat in it, but he didn't feel restrained.

Sister Su finished caring about Ling Wei's personal life, and then shifted the topic to Ma Tianhong. "Xiao Hong, how about the person Auntie introduced to you last time?"

In front of so many people, even if Ma Tianhong was a department-level cadre, he couldn't help feeling a little shy.

"Mom, why would you ask such a question!" Bai Juan glared at her mother, then said to Ma Tianhong with a smile, "Sister Hong, do you still have contact with that person?"

"You girl!" Sister Su tapped Bai Juan's head with her chopsticks, "Your words are even more unreliable!"

"Sister Hong, save me..." Bai Juan said coquettishly.

All of a sudden, muffled laughter resounded from the dinner table.

Most of Ma Tianhong's shyness was driven away by Bai Juan's gag. She bit her lower lip and said in a low voice, "I met once, and then..."

"What? Isn't it suitable?" Sister Su looked at her with worry in her eyes, "You will be 35 after the new year, so you can't stay single like this forever!"

A blush rose on Ma Tianhong's face, and he turned his face away.

"Mom, you're just worrying about nothing. Sister Hong has culture and career, so what are you afraid of!" Bai Juan looked at Ma Tianhong, then looked at Ling Wei meaningfully, and said without hesitation: "Besides, Secretary Ling is also single. Well, compared to Secretary Ling, Sister Hong..."

cough!Bai Dongxin coughed heavily.

Bai Juan didn't dare to say any more. She stuck out her tongue and said to Ling Wei, "Secretary Ling, I'm just joking."

"Is there such a joke?" Bai Dongxin asked angrily.

"I'm also worried about Sister Hong," Bai Juan lowered her head. "If the person my mother introduced is one-tenth of Secretary Ling, Sister Hong will..."

"Xiaojuan!" Bai Dongxin was really angry this time.

"Okay, okay," Ling Wei came forward to smooth things over, "Xiaojuan is still young, she was just joking, Secretary Bai doesn't have to worry about it."

"You're still young even though you're married," Bai Dongxin sighed, and said, "This kid has been spoiled by me and his mother."

Bai Juan wrinkled her nose and made a face at Ma Tianning.

Ma Tianning pampered her nose.

Ling Wei looked at the young couple laughing, and there was a smile on his face.

"Secretary Ling, I offer you a toast." Seeing the relaxation on Ling Wei's face, Ma Tianhong stood up holding the wine glass.

The smile on Ling Wei's face remained undiminished, and he sat still.

Bai Dongxin paused, then filled Ling Wei's glass with a smile, "Secretary Ling, this glass of wine..."

Ling Wei glanced at the expressions of everyone on the table calmly, it seems that today's banquet was not so simple.Thinking of this, he decided to continue acting along the script, just for one meal, he didn't believe that Bai Dongxin and Ma Tianhong could set him a trap.

"Chief Ma, you can do whatever you want." Ling Wei drank it all in one gulp.

Seeing that Ling Wei was so straightforward, Ma Tianhong also covered his lips with his hand and drank the wine in the glass.

"Secretary Ling, you're refreshing!" Bai Dongxin praised.

Taking advantage of Ling Wei's inattention, Bai Juan gave Ma Tianhong wild winks.

Seeing their small movements, Ma Tianning frowned slightly.

Ling didn't drink, so he continued to sit down and eat.

Among them, Ma Tianning also offered two glasses of wine to Ling Wei under Bai Juan's instigation.

The atmosphere at the banquet became more and more lively, until Ling Wei's mobile phone rang, and everyone realized that they had been eating for more than an hour.

"Secretary, what's the matter?" Bai Dongxin turned his head to look at Ling Wei. Ling Wei's mobile phone screen blocked it, so he couldn't tell whose call it was.

"It's okay." Ling Wei pressed it off calmly.

Just as I put the phone back into my pocket, it buzzed again.

"Secretary, you should call back first."

Ling Wei thought for a while, and walked into the living room with his mobile phone.

"what happened?"

"Where did you go?" He Chaoyang's voice was a little anxious, but also a little excited, "I'm back!"

"Ah."

"Where are you? I'll pick you up!"

"No, I'm eating at Secretary Bai's house." Ling Wei saw that everyone in the dining room was paying attention to him from the corner of his eye, and said, "I'll talk about it tomorrow if there's anything else to do, so hang up."

Ling Wei answered the phone, apparently absent-minded.

"Secretary, if you have something to do, just..." Bai Dongxin hesitated to speak.

Ling Wei smiled and said: "It's okay, let's talk about work tomorrow, and I can't talk about work 24 hours a day." Then, he joked with Ma Tianhong, "Are you right? Miss?"

Chief Ma has become Miss Ma, which is undoubtedly a very obvious signal.

Sister Su and Bai Juan were overjoyed, and Bai Dongxin also smiled, but the smile didn't reach his eyes.

Ma Tianhong was a little shy, but still had a glass of wine with Ling Wei generously.

For a while, the atmosphere on the wine table was a little weird, but no one could figure out where the weirdness was.

After Ling Wei bid farewell to the crowd and returned to Building No. [-] of the Standing Committee Yuan, his steps were already a little floating.

"Back?" As soon as he entered the door, the light in the living room turned on.

Ling Wei squinted his eyes and saw He Chaoyang sitting on the sofa in the living room with an uneasy expression.

"Are you in a hurry?" Ling Wei helped the shoe cabinet to change shoes, with a smile on his lips.

"Why did it take so long?" He Chaoyang came over, a little worried, if it wasn't for Ling Wei's tone of voice on the phone that was too business-like, he would have run to Bai's house to pick him up.

However, the remaining rationality told him that Bai Dongxin's recent actions in Annan were definitely not aimless, and his pretending to be friendly with cadres at all levels was not just as simple as being close to the people.

"What's Bai doing?" He Chaoyang touched Ling Wei worriedly.

Ling Wei looked at him, raised his head and smiled, "He introduced me to a girlfriend."