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Chapter 209: The capital is at home

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Capital Yujia

The plan is not as good as the change. The original plan to travel on New Year's Day was stranded because of Zhang Feng's temporary business.

On New Year’s Eve, the custom of keeping the year old is the same everywhere, but Zhang Feng was a little tired because of going up the mountain today, and he had to go back to the county party committee to live in the evening, so he left without staying for a few minutes after eating, and made an appointment for tomorrow. After returning early in the morning, everyone set off to the Lingshan Scenic Area. The car was ready. In addition to Santana, there was also a Mitsubishi off-road. Fang Lan would also go there.

Back to the county party committee, Zhang Feng sat alone in the office. Although the TV was turned on, there was no sound, as if he was watching a pantomime. With memories of two generations, he had no interest in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala and felt that he was not as creative as those who were creative. The advertisements of the show are a little better. Those few hostesses who are scratching their heads, thinking of their images decades later, can spit out overnight meals.

The sound of firecrackers came sporadically outside the window, and the garden in the middle of the street raised brilliant fireworks from time to time. Zhang Feng felt extremely lonely at this moment. He stood in front of the window and smoked a cigarette, turned off the TV, and Zhang Feng I turned over a plastic album in the drawer and flipped it up. The first page that caught my eye was a photo of him and Yang Xiaolan in the Lingshan Scenic Area.

Zhang Feng focused his gaze on this photo. He hasn't moved for a long time. In his past and present, countless images alternately appear in his mind, making him unable to tell which is true and which is false, and he can't even tell whether he is in a dream. It was still in reality. After a long time, I suddenly closed the album and took a long sigh of relief while sitting in a chair.

As if it were a nightmare, Zhang Feng opened his eyes and felt that he was weak all over. Since that strange dream half a year ago, whenever the night is quiet, he will be in a daze with the photos of the time when he was with Yang Xiaolan. Today is like this. , It was not the first time, although he knew that this would only make him feel even more disappointed, he still couldn't help but want to take a look.

The phone on the desktop rang suddenly, awakening Zhang Feng from his absence, stretched out his hand and rubbed his cheeks, sighed, and Zhang Feng grabbed the microphone and said, "Hello? Who?" His phone was mostly used. It's an inside line. All incoming calls go through the secretary. Very few can come in directly. Of course, there are exceptions, such as this one.

There was a burst of brisk laughter in the microphone, and then Xiao Tang's Mandarin with a lot of Hunan dialect: "Happy new year, secretary! Are you still on duty in the office tonight?"

Hearing Xiao Tang's cheerful laughter, Zhang Feng's mood improved inexplicably: "Xiao Tang, when will you get home?"

Xiao Tang smiled and said, "I came back for two days. I wanted to call you, but I was afraid to disturb you."

Zhang Feng smiled and said, "I'm not afraid to disturb you at this moment. When I am busy and when I am free, you still don't know."

Xiao Tang chuckled. It seemed that after returning to his hometown, he became more cheerful and laughed a lot more briskly: "Secretary Zhang, the first wave of the number will not be until early March in the next year, and there is more than half a month between them. , Am I going back to the county first to report?"

Zhang Feng said: "That's not necessary, then you can go directly to Shanghai. It is estimated that you will have to stay there for more than half a year."

Xiao Tang smiled and said, "That's not good, what about the work in the county?"

Zhang Feng said: "What to do, there is nothing to do in the office, and the work on the highway cannot be settled in three or five months. Don't worry, no one will occupy your office."

Xiao Tang hung up the phone with joy. Obviously, this girl was not the main reason for calling New Year's greetings, but the purpose was to inquire about news.

Zhang Feng was disturbed by this phone call from Xiao Tang, and he didn’t want to continue watching the album. He just stuffed the album into his desk, turned his head and looked at the quartz clock on the wall. It was already past nine o’clock in the evening. After thinking about it, he grabbed the microphone. After dialing Yu Mei's mobile phone, Xiao Tang's phone number reminded him that he really had to wait until after midnight, I'm afraid that the New Year call would not be able to get through.

When I received the call, Yu Mei was talking with her parents. In the past few days in Beijing, she has been in a hurry every day like a marquee. Not to mention her father, but her mother is idle, but her health has not been very good. Yu Mei didn’t have much time to accompany her. Tonight, on New Year’s Eve, she deliberately ran back to talk to her parents for a while, and had to return to Yang’s house in the evening to keep the years old. Families like them, on the first day of the new year, they even more. There is no time to get together and gossiping.

After she put down the phone, Yu Bowen, who had been sitting on the sofa staring at the TV screen, asked casually: "Who is calling you at this time? Is it Xiao Yuan?" He always called Yuan Hongbing Xiao Yuan. For this Son-in-law, Yu Bowen didn't really appreciate it at the beginning. The marriage between the two was more political. However, the relationship between the young couple has always been good, and I have never heard of Yuan Hongbing contracting those messy boy brothers. His perception slowly improved.

Yu Mei smiled and said, "No, he doesn't know what he is up to now, Zhang Feng called."

Yu Bowen let out a "Oh" and said, "Is that your genius student?"

Yu Mei's mother heard another smell: "Is the doctor who cured you?"

Yu Mei said: "Yeah, Zhang Feng is really genius in some aspects. By the way, mom, Zhang Feng's family has been a herbal medicine doctor for several generations, and the one that came out this time is also his. Fangzi, look, would you like him to see it for you?"

Yu Bowen frowned, and said, "I don't know how many doctors your mother has sought for her illness, and the Chinese medicine practitioners are all young and old. Isn't it better than a 20-lang-dang local herbalist? Don't toss about it!"

Yu Mei said, "Dad, what do you say about my illness? This is not something that happens to explain."

Yu Mei's mother echoed: "Yes, Meizi's body is recovering very well."

Yu Bowen frowned, but didn't say much, but he was obviously not optimistic about Yu Mei's idea, but it is a fact that Yu Mei's health is getting better. Although he is suspicious, he is not an unreasonable person. Why didn't I have the idea of giving it a try, but my status is different, no matter what I do, I have to think more about it.

Yu Bowen’s wife is Ye Hong, whose nickname is Hongye. She was born in an 800-year-old red family and was born on the battlefield, perhaps due to congenital deficiencies. She has not been healthy since she was a child, and her childhood living environment is unstable. , I ran around and suffered a physical loss, so I was always a little weak. Yu Bowen and Ye Hong grew up almost together, but they were older than Ye Hong. When he was a child, he took care of Ye Hong more, and later he was slower. Slowly came together.

Yu's family is thin and there are no blood relatives, but Yu Bowen can go to this day, there are very special reasons for this, of which the care of the Ye family can only be regarded as part of it, and Yu Bowen is also regarded as the red child of Zheng Miaohong. It’s just that from the grandparents to the parents’ generation, all of them have died for the country, some died on the frontal battlefield, and some died in underground work.

The reason why Yu Bowen was locked up for censorship during that big campaign was also related to someone in his family who had served as a senior general in the old government. Ye Hong also gave birth to Yu Mei at that time, and his original loss of health became more and more serious. The seriousness of the disease has been delayed until now, and it has a lot to do with the status of their family. In ordinary people's houses, it has long since been dead.

Seeing that the blog post stopped talking, Ye Hong smiled slightly. Although she spent most of these years in illness, she had bright eyes and a clear mind, and she could see everything through her husband’s mind. Guessed something, shook her head secretly, and then asked Yu Mei: "Do you recognize Zhang Feng as your younger brother?"

Yu Mei gave an "um" and said, "I didn't intend to help him so soon. At least I had to work hard at the grassroots level for a few years. But some people are much more anxious than us, and Zhang Feng has encountered problems one after another. Little things, so I led him to see Uncle Sun."

When Yu Bowen heard the words, he turned his head: "Didn't you partner with him to set up a pharmaceutical company? Are you afraid of being taken away by others?"

Yu Mei said: "Where, hey, I can't tell you clearly," he said after a pause: "My second uncle's secretary has been around Zhang Feng all day, not to mention that there are others who have no chance."

Yu Bowen was stunned for a moment, and a bright color flashed in his eyes. The second uncle Yu Mei said was of course Yuan Hongbing's second uncle. Yang Bokang, the youngest second of the Yang family's generation, was the one who led him to serve as the provincial party secretary in Beiyuan. This is how people are. Although he is very close to the Yang family because of his daughter, it is also a limited cooperation. They use each other. Yang Bokang’s secretary tries his best to get close to Zhang Feng. Others may not understand, but Yu Bowen is. Seeing the fire.

Although he didn’t say anything on the surface, he still valued Zhang Feng very much in his heart. The reason was naturally the two articles of Zhang Feng. Although the two articles were nominally co-authored with Yu Mei, Yu Bowen thought too much. It is clear what is going on in the two articles, and the arguments are basically put forward by Zhang Feng.

The key to making Yu Bowen so important is that these two articles have changed his destiny.

Yu Bowen’s original views were almost contrary to these two articles, but after Yu Mei published the article, he fell silent and had room for maneuver to advance and retreat. The subsequent development also proved the correctness of Zhang Feng’s views. Those views were completely opposite. Yu Bowen knows what the situation is nowadays. If it weren't for the two articles by Zhang Feng and Yu Mei, Yu's family would end here.

Since then, Yu Bowen has actually been very concerned about Zhang Feng’s situation. He even acquiesced in Yu Mei and Zhang Feng’s joint venture to set up a pharmaceutical company. As for Yu Mei taking Zhang Feng to Sun Yan’s place, he knew it well. But he didn't expect that the Yang family would have coveted Zhang Feng. In his opinion, the teacher-student relationship between Zhang Feng and Yu Mei is very strong, and it is extremely difficult for others to intervene.

But the Yang family is different. After all, Yu Mei is still the Yang family’s daughter-in-law. If she has a child, then the Yang family must be put first. Therefore, it is difficult for Yang Bakang to have any other ideas. From the bottom of his heart, it was still uncomfortable. As he thought, Zhang Feng was already a talent in the Yu family camp.

Yu Bowen said lightly: "Who else has a chance?"

Yu Mei smiled a little bitterly, and said: "There is also a shareholder who started a pharmaceutical company with us, who specializes in research work. It is a doctor of pharmacology who came back from the United States, named Chen Huishan. Guess who it is?"

Yu Bowen said: "Could it be that the Chen family failed?" This sentence was completely casual. Since Chen Huishan's surname is Chen and Yu Mei said it so solemnly, it seems that this is the only result. There are many big families of, but there are only a few that can make him pay attention to the blog post.

Yu Mei nodded and said, "It's the daughter of Uncle Chen, secretary of the Provincial Discipline Inspection Commission. I didn't know how long it was before, but I still heard what the Red Bing said."

In fact, Yu Mei only found out the day before yesterday. She had never checked Chen Huishan before, because it was the partner Zhang Feng found and a PhD in pharmacology. It was the talent they needed most. Yu Mei had nothing to worry about. But after she introduced Zhang Feng to Sun Yan, Yuan Hongbing could only secretly smile to herself, and simply told Yu Mei about Chen Huishan's identity, so as to prevent Yu Mei from misunderstanding him.

Sure enough, Yu Bowen was taken aback, and said, "Chen Jingyuan's daughter? It wasn't..."

He is not only familiar with Chen Jingyuan, but also with Chen Jingyuan’s wife and even Chen Jingyuan’s father-in-law. He also knows some of the things that happened in the Chen family back then. He didn’t expect that after so many years, the little girl who went overseas with her mother would also come back. Up.

Ye Hong was also taken aback when he heard the words, frowned and thought about it, "Yes, that kid's nickname is Shanshan, four years younger than Meizi? Well, when he left Beijing that year, he still wanted to send it off. "

On the contrary, Yu Mei was stunned: "Did I know Chen Huishan before?"

Ye Hong said with an "Yeah" and said, "When you were young, you may not remember it, but Aunt Li still remember? That's the aunt who often brought you candy, wore beautiful clothes and long hair. You used to Don’t you always have to learn her to keep long hair."

A trace of nostalgia flashed on Yu Mei's face, and she sighed softly, wondering what she was thinking of.

Yu Bowen pondered for a while before saying: "This shouldn't be Chen Jingyuan's intention."

Yu Mei let out a "um" and said, "Uncle Chen is not very clear about the pharmaceutical factory. He wants his daughter to enter politics or marry the Tan family. Chen Huishan does not go to work in the Drug Administration. He might be eager. As for the pharmaceutical company, Uncle Chen may not know that the boss is Zhang Feng, let alone that Zhang Feng and Chen Huishan stay together all day."

Yu Bowen heard the words: "Zhang Feng and Chen Jingyuan's daughter?"

Yu Mei "hmm" for a moment and said: "I just noticed it not long ago."

Yu Bowen smiled slightly, shook his head and said: "Don't worry, Chen Jingyuan's stinky temper, it's only strange if you can allow it!"