Rebirth of Politics

Yang Lu arrived at Yangjiazhuang at nine o'clock in the morning.

Originally, he planned to take the bus, and he would not arrive until at least ten o'clock, but now that he arrived early, Yang Lu was still wondering if he could be of any help.

As soon as the car drove near Yang Caichang's house, he saw Yang Caichang, who was wearing a suit and a corsage with shiny hair, jumping up and down in a hurry, shouting for some reason, without the demeanor of a groom at all.

"What's wrong?" Yang Lu got out of the car and walked over.

Yang Caichang had his back turned to him, but when he patted his shoulder, he suddenly turned around: "Yang Lu? Didn't you arrive after ten o'clock?"

Yang Lu shyly smiled and said, "Someone borrowed my car, so I came early."

"Car?!" Yang Caichang's eyes lit up: "What car?"

Yang Lu's car stopped at the corner, and Yang Caichang couldn't see it from his angle. The two of them took two steps forward, and the shiny car came into view.

"Brother, you are my real brother!" Yang Caichang almost cried when he saw the car driven by Yang Lu: "Well, don't say anything, hurry up and pick up the bride with brother!"

"What happened?" Yang Lu asked.

"Don't mention it, a car I booked broke down on the road. I can't make up a pair of cars to welcome the bride. I'm going to be so worried!" Yang Caichang complained and said to Yang Lu: "Let's not ink Come on, drive over here, let's set off now."

Yang Lu nodded and said, "Leave me alone, I will follow."

When Yang Caichang heard this, he didn't talk too much nonsense, and hurriedly reported to the uncle in charge.

The bride came back at eleven o'clock.

The convoy to greet the bride has already stopped, and only the float carrying the bride will not open until the auspicious time.

Yang Lu parked the car in an empty field, and went to rest near the gate with several drivers.

Both Yang Lu and Yang Caichang are outstanding figures among the younger generation in the village. Although he is not good at words, there are quite a few people who greet him.Yang Lu picked up what he could say and talked to the big guys, trying not to reveal anything about Ye Zhanyun.In fact, he knew that the big guy was just curious about the affairs of the top leaders, and he didn't mean to inquire about it, but the privacy of the "leadership" should be kept if it can be kept.

A group of people were talking when Yang Lu's cell phone rang.

Although mobile phones are no longer as rare as they were two years ago, the much smaller style of mobile phones in Yang Lu's hand still attracted the attention of many people.

"Tsk tsk, it's different to be a driver for the mayor." A knowledgeable driver among the drivers whispered, "This phone is even higher than my boss's phone!"

"Really? I just saw the advertisement!" Someone's eyes showed envy: "This kid can be fished!"

Even after hearing these discussions, Yang Lu couldn't say anything. The mobile phone came from a gift from his lover, and Ye Zhanyun's money came from a very honest source, but no one believed what he said, so he could only smile and didn't do anything. explain.

"Hello?" Yang Lu walked to a secluded place and whispered.

"Has the banquet started yet?" Ye Zhanyun asked with a smile.

"Not yet." Yang Lu said, "It's not the auspicious time yet."

"It's just being fussy," Ye Zhanyun leaned on the back of the chair and said with a low smile, "Are you hungry?"

"I'm not hungry, I'm quite full this morning." Leaning against the wall, Yang Lu asked, "Have you eaten yet?"

"Cao Yang went to cook dinner. I don't have an appetite without you."

Yang Lu blushed, and said in a low voice, "Why do you have no appetite, the food in the cafeteria is quite delicious."

"Well, no matter how delicious it is, it's not as delicious as what you make." Ye Zhanyun smiled and said: "Let's not talk about that, take it easy at noon and don't drink too much."

"I know!" Yang Lu said with a smile, "I drive a car and don't drink."

"Did you drive there?" Ye Zhanyun raised his eyebrows: "Whose car? Zhou Nan left it for you?"

"No, it's Jiang Yuan."

"Oh." Ye Zhanyun nodded, and said, "It's his interest."

"Don't say that..." Yang Lu said embarrassedly.

"What's the matter?" Ye Zhanyun said with a low smile, "I'm his leader anyway, and you are his leader. If he doesn't curry favor with you, he's out of his mind."

"What nonsense are you talking about!" Yang Lu was afraid to see anyone.

"How can I..." Ye Zhanyun was still arguing when he heard a knock on the door. He secretly scolded Cao Yang for not looking at him, what meal did he give when he was talking with his wife!However, as a good leader, of course, you must not display your emotions, so he coughed lightly: "Come in."

"Dinner is here?" Yang Lu also heard the change in his voice, and said in a low voice: "You go eat, I'm going to have dinner here too."

"Well, don't drink."

"Oh."

"come back earlier.

"Eh?" Yang Lu hesitated for a moment, and said, "I have to stay with my mother for two days."

After Ye Zhanyun heard this, his complexion became ugly, but Yang Lu had only been home for such a long time, and he couldn't let someone rush back immediately, so he reluctantly said: "Oh..."

There was a lot of reluctance in the tone, which surprised Cao Yang, who is Mayor Ye talking to?Why is there a hint of coquettishness in the tone?

The drivers were all invited to a seat, but Yang Lu remained silent, listening to everyone's discussions and smiling from time to time.

Some of these drivers drove for their bosses, and some for small government officials. In terms of seniority, Yang Lu's boss was the best.

"Brother Yang, I'd like to toast you." A certain driver raised his glass.

Yang Lu waved his hand and said, "Don't drink while driving."

"It's not that serious. I drank half a catty of wine and drove back to the city."

Yang Lu forced a smile, picked up the wine glass and touched his lips, and said, "That's the most, I don't have the capacity for alcohol, so I'm not as good as you."

The man choked on him, and he knew his boss was awesome, so he stopped pestering him and called others to drink instead.Yang Lu watched the chaos in the driver's seat and sighed silently.

The dishes on the driver’s seat are quite rich, but what Yang Lu likes most is the big pot dish served at the end. There is no meat in the dish, it’s just dry-fried meatballs, tofu, vermicelli, cabbage, but this big pot dish contains his childhood The fondest memory is that when he was a child, he liked to go with Fatty Yang to hold weddings and wait for the big pot dishes. Once the hot big pot dishes came out of the pot, the two of them could eat two bowls!But now, after eating so many good things with Ye Zhanyun, he still feels that the big pot dishes in his hometown are the most delicious, and no high-end restaurant can make this kind of rural game.

The other drivers were still drinking and punching, Yang Lu didn't join in, but filled a big bowl of food and ate slowly.

"Brothers, how did you eat?" Yang Caichang brought his bride to toast everyone.

"Okay, okay!" The drivers booed, "It would be even better if the bride came to toast!"

Holding the wine glass, the bride smiled shyly behind Yang Caichang.

Yang Lu followed everyone and stood up without speaking.It was Yang Caichang who specially introduced it to the bride: "This is Yang Lu, I'm the younger one."

The bride smiled at Yang Lu, who nodded shyly.

"Xiao Yang, you can't treat one more favorably than another!" Someone shouted, "Come on, brother and sister, light a cigarette for brother!"

The bride took a look at Yang Caichang and saw her husband nod her head, so she took a lighter and lit the cigarettes for the booers.During the process of lighting the cigarette, the man deliberately dodged left and right with the cigarette in his mouth, making a violent fuss.

Looking at the farce in front of him, Yang Lu felt a little pain in his brain, and he was still not used to such an occasion.After Yang Caichang and his wife left, Yang Lu hurriedly cleaned up the dishes in the bowl, and was about to say goodbye to the host.

Yang Caichang hadn't returned from the toast, but the uncle in charge saw that Yang Lu was leaving, so he hurriedly called him and handed him a sealed plastic box.

"What is this?" Yang Lu asked curiously.

"This is a big pot of food just out of the pot. Let your mother taste it when you go home." The uncle in charge said with a smile: "This is arranged by the host's family early in the morning. I know that your mother won't come. I usually can't eat this local taste." Arrived."

Yang Lu was holding the warm box, his eyes were a little moist. Although this box of food was not worth much, it was more pleasing to him than any delicacies from mountains and seas.

"Uncle, I'm leaving first. Fatty Yang is busy now. When you see him, tell him that I will catch up with him later."

"I know!" The uncle in charge sent him all the way to the car: "You have been honest since you were a child, and you are not used to such occasions, so I won't keep you any longer."

"Hey!" Yang Lu started the car, waved his hand, and left the small village where he grew up.

Yang Lu came back early, and when he got home, he called Zhou Nan and asked him to book a train ticket for the next night.

Originally, he wanted to order it himself, but thinking that Ye Zhanyun said that you really look down on people if you don't use them, Yang Lu suppressed his guilt and dialed the phone.

Zhou Nan on the other end was very happy when he received his call. He kept saying that you can rest assured that you can handle things, and that he would invite him to dinner tonight.

"No need, it's a long way away." Yang Lu wondered.

"What's the distance! It's only an hour's drive, and I'm idle now anyway." Zhou Nan said with a smile.

Yang Lu had no choice but to agree, and sat on the sofa with his eyes closed to rest.

Mother Yang came back from a visit in the afternoon, and when she opened the door, she saw her son sitting on the sofa, and asked curiously, "Why are you back now? Are the affairs of Caichang's family settled?"

"It's done." Yang Lu told the story of him driving to greet the bride, opened the big box wrapped in a plastic bag, and said with a smile: "Mom, this is a big pot of food brought by the Yang family."

Mother Yang came over to touch it, and said with a smile, "It's still hot!"

"Try it." Yang Lu pulled his mother to sit at the dining table, and said, "Uncle said you haven't eaten this dish for many years, try our hometown flavor."

Mother Yang looked at the familiar dishes and wiped the corners of her eyes: "It's not that I haven't eaten it for many years, Mom has a bowl."

Yang Lu took the small bowl and passed the chopsticks to his mother, watching his mother chewing and swallowing slowly as if tasting some delicacies from mountains and seas.

"When will you let me eat this dish!" Mother Yang whispered while eating.

When Yang Lu heard this, he froze in place.

"Fatty Yang is married, do you have a partner?" Mother Yang asked again.

"I..." Yang Lu was in a dilemma. He didn't want to confess to his mother about Ye Zhanyun, but he still had to have a suitable reason for not getting married.But no matter what reason he finds out, it will make his mother sad.

"I'm not in a hurry." Yang Lu murmured.

"Not in a hurry?" Mother Yang put down her chopsticks and said seriously, "Son, you will be 29 after the new year, not too young."

Yang Lu lowered his head, his eyes turned red, and said, "Mom, I don't want to get married."

"Why?" Mother Yang was taken aback.

"I don't like women." Yang Lu whispered, "When they touch me, I feel sick."

"Ah?!" What kind of strange disease is this?Yang's mother touched Yang Lu's hand worriedly, and said cautiously: "Then why did mother touch you?"

"You're fine, others are fine."

"Really?" Mother Yang didn't dare to answer the question.

"Mom, think about it, have I held hands with any woman since I changed jobs?" Yang Lu looked at his mother with sincere eyes.

Yang's mother frowned, thinking about it carefully, it seems that this is really not the case.

"Then what to do!" Yang's mother panicked: "Is this a disease? Can it be cured?"

Yang Lu shook his head, and said: "I tried it, and the Ye family also found a good doctor for me, that's..." Yang Lu looked at his mother's anxious expression, and said forcefully, "It's just... there is no way."

"This, this..." Yang's mother was about to cry. She had been to the capital once, and she had no doubts about the Ye family's background and ability, so she was really panicked when Yang Lu said this.

"Mom, don't be sad, I'm fine on my own." Yang Lu comforted.

"It's fine now, but what will you do in the future!" Yang's mother shed tears sadly: "It doesn't matter if you don't have a wife, but you have no son or daughter, how lonely you are when your mother is gone!"

"How about I adopt one in the future?" Yang Lu suggested.

"It's not your own after all!" Yang's mother wiped away her tears and said, "Why don't we find a few more hospitals? Mom asked someone to introduce you to a few more partners?"

"Mom, don't be so hasty." Yang Lu sat across from his mother, held his mother's hand and said, "I also met a few in Donghai, and I would feel sick whenever they touched me. I almost went to the hospital, I think I'm born to be at odds with women, so let's get rid of it."

"But...but..." Yang's mother was so anxious that tears fell straight down: "Mom loves you."

"Mom, don't worry, I will have a good life in the future." Yang Lu wiped his mother's tears, feeling sore and unbearable, but he had to cheer up to comfort his mother: "Look at Ye Sister Lan, who has been at home for so many years, has never been married in her life, but she is doing well!"

"Sister Lan?" Mother Yang asked suspiciously.

"It's the elder sister who accompanied you when we went to Beijing to see a doctor last time." Yang Lu explained.

"She's not married either!" Mother Yang said in surprise.

"That's right," Yang Lu said with a smile, holding his fucking hand, "I'm not afraid of a woman, what am I afraid of as a grown man. If I don't have children in the future, I'll just spend my whole life in the Ye family like Sister Lan. nice."

"You treat Ye's family as a nursing home!" Mother Yang finally smiled through her tears.

Yang Luxin said that if he ran away from the Ye family, he might be in a hurry, but he didn't dare to tell his mother if he killed him, he just laughed and said, "It's not a nursing home, we'll rely on his family."

"You rambunctious monkey!" Yang's mother poked his forehead and said with a smile: "Mom doesn't care about you, but we have to take this matter slowly, in case you recover from illness in the future."

Yang Lu nodded, knowing that he would not be able to convince the mother for a while, as long as the old lady could be prepared in her heart, it would be better than anything else.

"Mom, shall we go to the capital for Chinese New Year this year?" Yang Lu tentatively asked.

"Why are you going to the capital?" Mother Yang asked strangely.

"That..." Yang Lu thought for a long time before he came up with a lame reason: "I bought a house after making some money in stocks."

"Stock trading?" Mother Yang was confused: "What is stock trading?"

"It's to buy stocks and then sell them." Yang Lu explained.

"A lot of money?" Mother Yang asked curiously, "Isn't the house in the capital quite expensive?"

"It's okay." Yang Lu was very guilty. In fact, he hadn't even seen what the current stocks looked like, so how could he speculate in stocks!But the house didn't come out of nowhere, and it couldn't be said that it was a betrothal gift from the Ye family... In short, it was all kinds of embarrassments.

"I can't run away from the house, and I'm not used to celebrating the New Year in places I'm not familiar with." Yang's mother shook her head and said, "I'll go with you when the New Year is warmer. I do not want to go out."

Yang Lu nodded, and didn't force it, and agreed to celebrate the New Year with his mother, so he wouldn't mention it anymore.

In the evening, before Yang Lu went out, the doorbell rang.

"Who is it?" Yang Lu opened the door and saw Zhang Xinhua standing outside the door with a smile on his face.

"Brother Zhang, is there something wrong?"

"It's like this, Yang Lu, it's rare for you to come back, so let's eat at my house tonight!" Zhang Xinhua invited: "It is said that distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors, so let's talk more."

Yang Lu was a little embarrassed: "Tonight..."

Just as he was talking, the intercom door opened, and Zhou Nan strode in.

"Yang Lu, let's go! Guanhuaju!" Zhou Nan said loudly.

"This..." Yang Lu looked at Zhang Xinhua in embarrassment.

"Then another day?" Zhang Xinhua was a little disappointed, and said to Zhou Nan in a blink of an eye, "Are you Director Zhou?"

"You know me?" Zhou Nan asked suspiciously.

"Oh, I work in the Education Bureau, and I heard that the current director is your old comrade-in-arms."

"Old comrade-in-arms?" Zhou Nan thought about it for a while and asked, "You mean Wang Dacheng?"

"That's right, that's Director Wang."

"Hey, he has become the director of the bureau!" Zhou Nan was also happy: "I have to beat him up some other day."

"Brother Zhang, too?" Yang Lu asked politely.

Zhang Xinhua was a little moved, and felt that it was inappropriate for him to follow, but then he thought about his own little calculation, gritted his teeth, and said, "Is this appropriate?"

As soon as he thought about it, Yang Lu could see it, and without pointing it out, he said with a smile, "Let's go together."

Zhang Xinhua rubbed his hands together and said, "Then I'd rather be respectful than obedient."

After several people got into the car, Zhou Nan took the time to wink at Yang Lu. What's the matter with the big light bulb?

Yang Lu shook his head slightly, but smiled silently.