The previous "wow" is actually quite fake.
Of course Xu Tingsheng couldn't tell Xiao Xiang Ning, I was just talking, it turned out that it was pretty good, it was wrong, it wasn't very good, it was just right, and I like it and I am used to it.
Of course, this originally refers to the 22-year-old Xiang Ning.
Xu Tingsheng was a little restless this afternoon when he sent off Xiao Xiang Ning. But seeing Xiang Ning reminded him of another thing, a long-overdue meal.
Chen Jianxing was actually a bit surprised to receive a call from Xu Tingsheng. Since the last "park incident", Xu Tingsheng, who said he would invite him to dinner, never contacted him again.
"The layers have finally been completely pulled apart."
This was Chen Jianxing's idea some time ago. Just when he wanted to strengthen his relationship with Xu Tingsheng, he suddenly realized that he seemed to be no longer qualified.
He had personally witnessed the battle in the park that day, and Chen Jianxing had always been concerned about Xu Tingsheng's development. Later, even without Xu Tingsheng's instruction, he still made several positive reports for Hucheng.
However, it seemed that the other party no longer needed it. It was just an ordinary city-level evening newspaper.
As for the meal agreed upon earlier, Chen Jianxing assumed that Xu Tingsheng had already forgotten about it, so he couldn't mind it. Now, in fact, in just over a month, his own life has changed dramatically.
Xu Tingsheng's call came at the right time.
"Brother Chen, I want to ask, are you free today? If you are free, how about we have dinner together?" Xu Tingsheng said on the phone.
Chen Jianxing, who sat dejectedly in the rented room for a whole day, put down the photo frame in his hand, adjusted his mood, and said, "Okay, where is it?"
Xu Tingsheng thought for a while and said, "Brother Chen is more familiar with Yanzhou than I am, how about Brother Chen help me choose?"
Chen Jianxing thought for a while and said, "That's fine, I'll arrange it. How many people are there?"
The reason why he asks this question is that he himself has experienced many such dinners... In this kind of dinners, where there are always a bunch of people with various titles and half-acquaintances with each other, most of the time he is just a by-product.
"I'm the only one on my side," Xu Tingsheng said, "Brother Chen, do you want to bring friends or family members? It would be better if you can come. I just haven't seen my sister-in-law and children yet."
Hearing what Xu Tingsheng said, Chen Jianxing's expression was a little gloomy, and he said, "I'm just alone."
After hesitating for a moment, Chen Jianxing continued: "Then the two of us, if there are two of us, I would like to ask first, Brother Xu, would you mind having some wine? I mean, I just want to drink some wine."
Xu Tingsheng heard something strange, thought for a while, and replied, "Okay."
"Then I'll call you later." Chen Jianxing said.
"Okay, Brother Chen, please." Xu Tingsheng said.
After hanging up the phone, Chen Jianxing washed his face, then found a large suitcase for clothes from the corner of the wall, opened it, and prepared to pick out a suit of decent clothes. Every piece of clothing in the suitcase was neatly folded, clean, exuding the fragrance of sunshine and laundry soap.
Chen Jianxing closed the box immediately when his emotions were about to sink.
…
The place for dinner is a good-grade private restaurant.
The location of the restaurant is slightly off, and the store is full of boxes, ranging from more than 20 people to two people, and the decoration is elegant. Xu Tingsheng and Chen Jianxing, who had disheveled hair and disheveled clothes, sat in a small box for the two of them.
Chen Jianxing is a person who pays great attention to "property". Even when he first met him in the Civic Square, he kept himself tidy.
Looking at his appearance today, combined with what he said on the phone this afternoon, Xu Tingsheng felt that Chen Jianxing should have something on his mind, and he might get himself drunk.
So, after the first glass of wine, Xu Tingsheng reached out to stop Chen Jianxing who was about to pick up the second glass.
"Brother Chen, let's have some food first." Xu Tingsheng said, "I'm afraid I'll get drunk later, so let's get down to business first. I actually remember the incident in the park last time and the subsequent reports about Hucheng." I mean, it's just that I'm too busy at this time..."
When Xu Tingsheng said this, Chen Jianxing looked at his hand that was going to get the bag, and said with a wry smile: "Wait, I know, you have an envelope in your bag now, and you are going to give it to me."
"Can I not this time?" Chen Jianxing said, "I can't drink this wine, I want to talk to you as a friend."
Xu Tingsheng was stunned for a moment, maybe there are many people in this world who lack someone to talk to.
He drew his hand back and took a second glass of wine.
Soon, Chen Jianxing entered a state of half-drunk, and then Xu Tingsheng learned about his current situation.
Chen Jianxing got divorced. He left the house three days ago.
Also, he may soon be transferred to the leadership of the Municipal Propaganda Department, when he was only 34 years old.
Xu Tingsheng actually didn't want to hear the following story.
Chen Jianxing abandoned his wife and daughter and planned to marry a woman who was two years older than him and who had been divorced twice. The woman's father was an important leader of the Yanzhou Municipal Party Committee.
"My wife cried for a month and refused to sign the divorce agreement. I forced her to commit suicide."
Chen Jianxing said: "Finally, just three days ago, she called me and told me to go back... saying that she had signed the contract. When I got home, she had packed everything for me. When I left, my daughter kept crying , I kept asking where I was going, but I didn’t say a word.”
"Why?" Xu Tingsheng asked the first question of the night.
"Wait for me to drink more." Chen Jianxing said.
An hour later, Xu Tingsheng could no longer clearly judge whether Chen Jianxing was right or wrong.
Chen Jianxing is not a native of Yanzhou. He used to work in a relatively remote place. Eight years ago, he met his current wife in a large-scale training event.
The two hit it off very well, fell in love at first sight, and then their relationship became deeper and deeper.
At that time, Chen Jianxing's most painful and embarrassing thing was that he couldn't transfer to Yanzhou, and he couldn't bear to have his girlfriend's wife go to his remote city.
He proposed to break up because of this, but his wife refused, saying that she had a way.
Then, to Chen Jianxing's surprise, he was transferred to this newspaper after just over half a year, and he was in the same unit as his wife.
The two also blossomed quickly.
It wasn't until after more than a year of sweet marriage and the birth of his daughter that Chen Jianxing suddenly thought of a question one day: his wife's family background is ordinary, she has no background, and she is just an ordinary staff member... Why did she transfer herself here in the first place
This question was like a thorn in Chen Jianxing's heart.
Finally, after Chen Jianxing frantically inquired for half a year, the result came out - his wife worked as a mistress for the then vice president of the newspaper for half a year before getting married.
And this matter, almost everyone in the newspaper knows.
Except Chen Jianxing.