[Rebirth to the Future] Diplomacy

Gao Jingting couldn't hide his thoughts from Rong Pei.

Seeing that Gao Jingting was about to break the casserole and ask the end, Rong Pei gave the barbecue grill to Zhou Xuyu first: "Xiao Zhou, you want to help take a look."

Zhou Xuyu nodded.

Rong Pei walked to the other end of the flower stand with his arms, and his voice could not be heard far away under the cover of flowers and trees.He looked at the aggrieved Gao Jingting for a while, and said, "I think Xiao Zhou is pretty good, so let him take the autumn exam and come to the municipal government as an intern."

Rong Pei looked calm, but Gao Jingting was still very uncomfortable: "I think he has ulterior motives..."

Rong Pei said: "He regards Tao An as his younger brother. After the incident between Tao An and Xu Lang broke out, he thought about helping Tao An find a good way out—that's why he brought Tao An to me." There are not too many threads buried in the capital, and Tao An and Xu Lang can't hide the matter from him at all.

He has also seen Zhou Xuyu's thoughts clearly.

Gao Jingting was taken aback.

He thought Rong Pei was nice to Tao An because Tao An was his younger brother, after all it was obvious how much Rong Pei attached importance to his family.

I didn't expect that there was such a secret in it.

Rong Pei continued: "Tao An's nature is not bad, and it's not too difficult to teach, just keep him around. I think Xiao Zhou is a good-natured person, and it's good to be able to join the municipal government to help me."

For some reason, Gao Jingting felt a flame growing in his heart.He didn't know how to calm down the anger in his heart, so he scolded directly: "Is this kind of guy who only wants to use others called good-natured?"

Rong Pei patted Gao Jingting on the shoulder and smiled slightly: "This kind of thing can't be said to be used or not. If you have such a person in your heart, you will naturally be willing to do anything for him. Apart from the few close ones, who in this world is not using each other?"

Gao Jingting remained silent.

Rong Pei said: "I know you care about him saying things that I don't like, but you don't know. But it really doesn't matter. The reason why Zhou Xuyu knows is because he made a special investigation before bringing Tao An to Hong Kong. My previous information; but you are different. I used to be the master of eating together. How can there be something I can’t eat? So it’s normal for you not to know. It’s not a big deal, don’t pay too much attention to it .”

After listening to his analysis, Gao Jingting immediately felt much better.He wanted to hug Rong Pei, but he was afraid that Rong Pei would be unhappy, so he lowered his head and said, "I understand..."

Rong Pei said: "I know you are always worried that there will be other people around me, but I can tell you: it is useless for you to worry any more. This will only make you feel uncomfortable."

Gao Jingting faltered in his defense: "A Pei, I just can't control myself..."

Seeing Gao Jingting's gloomy expression, Rong Pei hooked his neck and pecked his face, comforting him, "I know."

Although he backed away quickly, Gao Jingting still felt that he was being burned by the side of the kiss, until his heart melted.

Even with the cover of the flower stand, the voices of Mr. Yang's conversation can still be faintly heard. Rong Pei kissed him in front of these elders, which gave Gao Jingting the pleasure of a child doing bad things without telling the adults.

His mood has always changed quickly, and now he was so happy that Rong Pei coaxed him, and when he returned to the long table, he was already able to look pleasant to Zhou Xuyu.

Hao Yingjie had already joined Xu Lang and Tao Xi to talk to them, but when he saw Gao Jingting whose mood was quickly reversed by Rong Pei, he couldn't help feeling: "It's really deep."

Everyone is from Gao Jingting's family, and Tao Xi and Hao Yingjie have a good friendship.He replied: "Emotions are really coming, and they are always involuntary."

Xu Lang originally wanted to ask Tao Xi to go with him to have a good talk with Tao An, but Hao Yingjie kept getting in the way, and he couldn't find a chance to speak.After thinking about it, Xu Lang had no choice but to answer, "Maybe he's happy with it."

Hao Yingjie paused when he heard the words, and said with a smile: "That's right."

There was silence for a while, only the meat sizzled very slightly on the grill.

Zhou Xuyu has already taught Tao An how to bake it to taste. With the cooperation of the two, Mr. Yang and the others have already roasted enough.

Tao An excitedly took the meat skewers he grilled to tease the dozing furball standing aside.

Rong Pei called Zhou Xuyu aside to sit down, and the three of them joined the conversation with Mr. Yang.Zhou Xuyu was obviously restrained, and didn't say a word except to say hello to Mr. Yang.Gao Jingting handled it with ease, not even afraid of Yang Changhe's school entrance examination, when he encountered disagreements with Yang Changhe, he would argue with reason, blushing.

Rong Pei occasionally added a sentence or two.

Zhou Xuyu saw that the barbecue was almost finished, and just about to stand up and continue to cook more for them, when she heard footsteps coming from the stairs.

The fur ball raised its feathers, flapped its wings and fluttered onto Rong Pei's shoulder: "The enemy is invading! The enemy is invading!"

Rong Pei raised his hand and patted him on the back, smiled and said to Yang Chang and the others: "I also invited some friends over, namely Hao Yingcai, Zheng Yingwu, and his fiancée Qi Jia."

It's time for Hao Yingcai to go abroad, and he planned to come back today.When I informed Rong Pei that there was going to be a barbecue at his house, Gao Jingting also invited a bunch of people from his side. Hao Yingcai immediately became unhappy, and encouraged Zheng Yingwu to bring his fiancee to come with him.

Zheng Yingwu happened to have something to come to Yunlaigang, so he agreed without saying a word.

Hao Yingcai was the first to go up to greet Yang Changhe. The Hao family often haunted the Gao family. Hao Yingcai had met Yang Changhe several times when he was a child, so he was not too restrained.

Zheng Yingwu was two steps too late, he was observing the people invited by Gao Jingting.

Then lament that the enemy army is too weak.

Although Gao Jingting invited all the people from his side, Yang Changhe, who had the most weight, obviously did not come for his face; and Brother An Guanjia and Instructor Xu were sent by the Gao family, and they did not completely obey him; as for Hao Yingjie, Xu Lang and Tao Xi?I won't say anything about Hao Yingjie, can Xu Lang count as a help?If instructor Xu hadn't agreed to go home for this younger brother, it's not certain whether he would be able to settle in Yunlaigang on behalf of the Xu family!Not to mention Tao Xi, he didn't even get the position of heir.

If this is the person Gao Jingting can handle, then he might not even be able to play with Rong Pei's half finger.

Zheng Yingwu nodded to Qi Jia and led her to meet Yang Changhe.Although there are not many opportunities for people of his level to meet Yang Changhe, Zheng Yingwu felt that he didn't need to rely on Yang Changhe for food, and he didn't plan to ask Yang Changhe for help with anything, so he stood upright and spoke with a straight voice. Respect without the slightest cowardice: "Hello, Mr. Yang."

Qi Jia also recognized Yang Changhe, but if Zheng Yingwu wanted to save face for Rong Pei, she also had to save face for her fiancé.

So both of them behaved very calmly.

Zhou Xuyu's heart was a little shaken.

He knew the people around Rong Pei.

Hao Yingcai left the Hao family early, and lost his position as the heir of the Hao family early; as for Zheng Yingwu, he was just a gangster at the beginning, and he was imprisoned - Rong Pei arrested him; as for Zheng Yingwu's fiancée Qi Jia , the background is even more ordinary and ordinary, thrown into the sea of ​​people, you can't find it.

But they were so comfortable in front of Yang Changhe, as if what they were facing was just an ordinary old man.

Compare Hao Yingcai, Tao Xi, and Xu Lang who were invited by Gao Jingting to judge.

——What a person can achieve depends on the status in front of him.

Zhou Xuyu worked hard to adjust his mentality, stood up and grilled meat for them.

Tao An moved a chair and sat beside Rong Pei to listen to them.

The number of observers increased, so Yang Changhe naturally couldn't just guide Gao Jingting.

He began to talk about the general trend of the West.

Recently, the "free men" who migrated from the East China Sea across the entire coastline of the mainland have become more and more rampant, and the military's rectification is imperative.

The west is a special area that slowly prospered with Yunlaigang as the hub. Originally, the first fortress of the empire was Heishui Prefecture on the western border, and this side was basically a vast wasteland.

That's right, the wasteland.

There are more and more large and small cities these days, but there are actually not many permanent residents, and the population is highly mobile.

When a city loses its vitality and is heading for decline, this group of profit-seeking and fame-seeking people will go to new cities to look for opportunities.

So there are more and more deserted cities.

In order to control this trend, the empire introduced policies one after another, and finally it paid off: with the capital as the center, large and small cities are branched out in a radial pattern; and the closer to the capital, the higher the prosperity; in addition, some Cities with a long history have also become secondary radiation centers, supporting the development of neighboring cities.

Many abandoned cities are also gradually rejuvenated.

Under such circumstances, no one would pay attention to such a remote town as Yunlaigang.

It can be said that the development of Yunlai Port was a miracle created by Qingliu merchants, because at that time a large number of Qingliu merchants came to this place as pioneers and used it as a cheap and convenient transit warehouse.

At the beginning, someone saw the signs of Yunlaigang's rise and made a series of plans.

Yang Changhe said: "These plans have been taken over by me."

The people present were not too surprised, they could even figure out who the "someone" Yang Changhe was talking about - it must be his former friend Rong Junlin who made Yang Changhe admire him so much.

Yang Chang and Zheng Se said: "The rectification of the military is imminent. I hope that you, the younger generation, will be more prudent in doing things. At least you must have a clear mind before taking action."

Gao Jingting and Rong Pei nodded seriously.

After finishing talking about business, Hao Ying rubbed his stomach and said, "I'm hungry, let's go bake something to eat first!"

Mao Qiu also said: "Hungry, hungry!"

When Yang Changhe started to help clear up the situation in the west, the others had already pulled up chairs and sat over to listen. Hearing Hao Yingcai's fuss made him feel a little hungry.

After all, only Zhou Xuyu was busy in front of the barbecue grill just now, and it is really too busy to grill so many people.

So they gathered around the long table in twos and threes to barbecue for themselves.

Compared with the beginning, the atmosphere at this time is much more harmonious.

Hao Yingcai supported Rong Pei's shoulders and told him about Haizhou. Zheng Yingwu and Qi Jia added to him from time to time.Tao An also seemed to be very interested, and listened with gusto while leaning on Rong Pei's back, but Hao Yingcai always laughed at him for teasing Mao Qiu: only when Mao Qiu stood on Rong Pei's shoulder would he reluctantly talk to others.

Tao Xi and the others seemed to be infected, and they also started chatting one after another.Gao Jingting knew that Rong Pei was enjoying the time of the reunion, so he also moved to his side to chime in.Of course, his hands were also idle, this time he threw away all the mutton, recalled what Rong Pei liked to eat when we ate together before, carefully selected the ingredients, and started roasting.

In fact, watching Rong Pei and Hao Yingcai having a happy conversation, Gao Jingting was also a little confused. He always felt that compared to Rong Pei—even compared to any ordinary person, he always seemed to be missing something, no matter how he looked at it. wrong.

What is missing...

Gao Jingting frowned and began to think seriously.