Zhang Mingde and Yang Zhen left after sitting for half an hour. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Chen Xing's home was full of guests. They knew many of them, such as Deng Fang, the director of the Municipal Forestry Bureau, and Wang Fan, the director of the Municipal Education Bureau. Zou Fang used to work in the Forestry Bureau, while Chen Xing was a teacher in the No. 1 Middle School. Deng Fang and Wang Fan had a good reason to visit him. As for others, even if they wanted to make friends with Chen Xing, they couldn't find a good excuse to visit him. Otherwise, the door of Chen Xing's home would be broken by the visitors.
Deng Fang and Wang Fan obviously didn't expect that Yang Zhen and Zhang Mingde would be here at the same time. They greeted and chatted with each other. Yang Zhen and Zhang Mingde felt uncomfortable sitting there. They came to visit Chen Xing, but Chen Xing's home was full of guests. They didn't want to stay for long, so they left in advance.
At about six o 'clock, the house finally quieted down a little. Chen Xing smiled bitterly. It was only at dinner time that the house could be quiet. Otherwise, it would be a headache to deal with the waves of guests.
If you were not the Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, it would be really quiet. Chen Shuiping smiled. Most of the guests who came just now had only sat for a few minutes before leaving. However, all of them had left their gifts on the table. The corner of the living room was now piled up with a small mountain of gifts. Chen Shuiping was also having a headache. What Chen Xing meant was that there was no need for him to accept these gifts.
"Dad, I don't think we can stay in Hai City for the Lunar New Year. Let's spend the Lunar New Year in the capital." Chen Xing joked. "Look, the family hasn't been quiet at all for the Lunar New Year these years."
A few years ago, there weren't so many people coming. As you became a higher official, the number of people coming really increased year by year. In the future, we should really hide away during the Lunar New Year. Chen Shuiping smiled and nodded.
"Indeed, we can consider spending the Lunar New Year in the capital. We can reunite with our parents. It will be more lively when the family sits together and eats together." Zhang Ningning smiled.
Ningning, there's no need to mention your dad. I don't think he'll have time to have New Year's Eve dinner at home for the next few years. Chen Xing smiled. His father-in-law had now become the head of the country.
With the leaders around, they would only be busier during the New Year.
That was true. Zhang Ningning shook her head. She had forgotten that the last time her father ate at home on New Year's Eve was a few years ago.
I think it's okay to spend the New Year in Beijing, but you still have to come back. After all, some relatives have to leave. Zou Fang also said at this time.
The family sat down to have dinner, chatting and talking about the future of the Lunar New Year. It was a happy and harmonious atmosphere. It was rare that no one came for dinner at this time. Chen Xing felt much better. He thought to himself that those people who came to visit were quite tactful. They knew that it was dinner time and they shouldn't disturb them.
Chen Xing thought so. After dinner, he walked to the sofa and sat down to have a sip of tea. Before his butt leaned on the sofa, there was another knock on the door. This time, it was the principal of his father's school. Chen Xing smiled bitterly. There was really no peace at home. After sending the principal off, Chen Xing said, "Dad, I have to hide outside later to seek peace."
"I think you have activities at night, right?" Chen Shuiping smiled.
"Even if there's no activity, I don't dare to stay at home. These guests really make my head explode." Chen Xing smiled and looked at his wife. "Ningning, do you want to go out together? It's too noisy at home."
"Forget it, I won't go out. I'll go back to my room later. The little girl usually goes to bed after eight o 'clock at night. It's not convenient to go out." Zhang Ningning looked at the time and shook her head.
"Okay, I'll go out first." Hearing this, Chen Xing didn't say anything more. He hurriedly went out while no one was coming.
Coming out of home, Chen Xing stopped a car and went to Huang Ming's hotel. To be exact, it was a three-story restaurant, not a hotel. The branch invested by Jin Du Hotel in Hai City was still under construction. It was still built according to the four-star standard, and it was still far from completion.
There were many cars parked outside the restaurant. This restaurant was the first one invested by Huang Ming, and its business was still booming. At that time, he followed Huang Ming to invest 200,000 yuan, and now he didn't know how much dividend he got. In the early days, he followed Huang Ming to invest because Huang Ming had no money. Later, every time Huang Ming invested in a new hotel, he would also get a share according to the previous proportion. Chen Xing knew that there was an additional relationship of interest. They used to be close friends. Although their relationship was still as good as before, in fact, it had become not so pure.
Walking into the restaurant, Chen Xing had no idea how many people would be attending the class reunion tonight. Having escaped from home, he didn't call Huang Ming to inform him that he was coming. Instead, he went straight to the second floor.
On the second floor of the hotel, Chen Xing could hear people talking and laughing even before he arrived. Among them was Huang Ming's loud voice.
"Old Huang, will Chen Xing come tonight? Did he call you?" This was Fei Ren's voice. Chen Xing recognized it as soon as he heard it.
"No, he probably won't come if he doesn't call. Come on, let's drink first. If he has time to come, he will tell me." Huang Ming laughed.
Fei Ren curled his lips, but his mouth froze before it closed. Who else could it be but Chen Xing who came up from the stairs?
"Coming, coming." Fei Ren stood up excitedly. He was happier than anyone else.
"Who's coming?" Huang Ming was stunned. Looking back, he saw Chen Xing. Huang Ming was also surprised. He hurried out and greeted Chen Xing with a smile. "Chen Xing, why didn't you call me first? I thought you wouldn't come."
"I wasn't sure, so I didn't call you." Chen Xing smiled and glanced at the people present. It was just a casual glance. When he saw Zhao Qing, Chen Xing's pupils shrank slightly. He really didn't expect that Zhao Qing would come to this class reunion. His surprise at this moment could be imagined.
"I think Zhao Qing might come for you. Just now, she asked me whether you would come or not. I said not necessarily. Now, after sitting down for a while, she kept looking at her watch. I think if you showed up a few minutes later, she would have left." Huang Ming knew that Chen Xing had noticed Zhao Qing, so he whispered to Chen Xing.
"Don't talk nonsense." Chen Xing glared at Huang Ming.
"Tut, I'm not talking nonsense. Except for you, do you think we can make Miss Zhang come here? She must have thought that you might come, so she came to have a look. I bet that if you leave now, she will leave too." Huang Ming chuckled. "Chen Xing, I think Zhao Qing wants to continue her relationship with you. There's something you don't know. She divorced Sun Xiang and is single now. I heard from Fei Ren that there's a long line of suitors for her. They don't even care that she's married and had a child." Huang Ming thought to himself.
"Huang, what are you whispering about?" At this time, Fei Ren also walked over. When he saw Chen Xing, the smile on his face was brighter than a chrysanthemum. "Chen … Secretary Chen, you are finally here."
In front of Chen Xing, Fei Ren wanted to call Chen Xing's name familiarly, but he changed his name in time. He knew that Chen Xing didn't like him, at least that was the case before. Now Chen Xing's identity and status were quite different. He didn't know whether Chen Xing didn't care about him, but looking at Chen Xing's obviously distant smile, Fei Ren didn't dare to call Chen Xing's name directly.
Chen Xing nodded to Fei Ren. A seat was reserved for him next to Huang Ming, which happened to be facing Zhao Qing. Chen Xing walked over and sat down. When he met Zhao Qing's eyes, which were staring straight at him, Chen Xing was very calm. This woman who used to be familiar with him became more and more strange to him. Just now when he heard Huang Ming said that Zhao Qing had divorced, Chen Xing was not surprised at all. It seemed that this was more in line with the current Zhao Qing's character.
"Chen Xing, everyone is here early, but you are the last one. Shouldn't you punish yourself by drinking a glass of wine?" Zhao Qing looked at Chen Xing with a smile.
Narrowing his eyes, Chen Xing looked at Zhao Qing. Zhao Qing was more proactive and enthusiastic than he had imagined, as if nothing had happened between them. They were old classmates and old friends, but Zhao Qing's eyes seemed to have some other meaning.
Huang Ming sat aside and said nothing. If someone else asked Chen Xing to drink a glass of wine, he might make a fuss. However, the person who asked was Zhao Qing, so Huang Ming did not dare to make trouble, in case he made Chen Xing unhappy.
The atmosphere seemed to freeze suddenly. Everyone present was from the local university. Everyone knew about the passionate love between Chen Xing and Zhao Qing in university. Now, one of the two people involved had become the Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, and the other was the daughter of the Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee. It had to be said that it was full of drama. It also made people sigh that things that did not happen were unpredictable. In the blink of an eye, the graduates of this batch had stepped into society for ten years. Ten years ago, who would have thought that Chen Xing would have today's achievements? Who would have thought that Zhao Qing's mother would be transferred to Hai City, and now she was the Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee of Hai City.
No one dared to meddle in the affairs between Chen Xing and Zhao Qing. Although it was a relaxed reunion, at this moment, everyone was stunned.
"Okay, let's have a drink." Chen Xing nodded indifferently. As soon as he opened his mouth, the whole second floor seemed to have returned to its noisy state. Huang Ming stood up with a smile, poured a glass of wine for Chen Xing, and said, "Chen Xing, we are all old classmates tonight. If you have nothing to do tomorrow, you should drink to your heart's content."
"I have to get up early tomorrow to visit my relatives." Chen Xing smiled and waved his hand.
"Ah, you also have to visit your relatives?" Huang Ming said in surprise.
"Look at what you said. Am I not a human? This is the New Year, everyone has to visit their relatives' homes. Am I different from others?" Chen Xing scolded with a smile.
"No, no, I was thinking that as the Secretary, you definitely don't have time to care about visiting relatives and friends." Huang Ming said with a smile.
Chen Xing smiled and shook his head. Huang Ming's words more or less represented the views of other classmates on him. Now everyone thought that he had become a leader, and his position was not low. They looked at him in a different way and thought that he was different from ordinary people. Chen Xing was also helpless about this.
He raised the glass of wine that Huang Ming had poured for him. Because it was beer, Chen Xing drank the whole glass directly and put down the glass. Seeing that Huang Ming was about to pour another glass, Chen Xing smiled and shook his head. "If I pour another glass, you will drink it for me."
"Chen Xing, just one glass. That won't do. We haven't had a drink yet." Zhao Qing suddenly said with a smile.
Chen Xing frowned slightly. "Zhao Qing is really proactive and enthusiastic now."
"Chen Xing, am I right? Zhao Qing may want to continue his relationship with you. Look at his attitude. He doesn't treat you as an outsider at all. It seems that he doesn't take the past seriously." Huang Ming moved closer to Chen Xing's ear and said again.
"Huang, what are you doing? You always whisper to each other. We are all old classmates. You are treating us as outsiders. You don't need to say anything. Drink a few glasses as punishment." Fei Ren said to Huang Ming.
"Okay, I will drink a glass as punishment." Huang Ming said with a smile.
Zhao Qing quickly raised her glass to toast to Chen Xing. She stood up and looked at Chen Xing with a smile. It seemed that if Chen Xing didn't drink a glass with her, she would not sit down.
They drank a glass of wine. Chen Xing didn't intend to drink this time. He put the glass upside down on the table to show his intention. During the dinner, listening to the flattering words of other classmates, especially the mushy words of Fei Ren, Chen Xing shook his head helplessly. Such a class reunion was really meaningless.
"Secretary Chen, I think we can consider setting up an Alumni Association of Hai University. We will organize those outstanding graduates of Hai University. You can be the president." Fei Ren made a suggestion.
"Oh, this is a good idea." Hearing this, Huang Ming said with great interest. After all, Sea City University was a key university. Not everyone who graduated from Sea City University was successful, but there was no lack of people who excelled in various industries. Some people even achieved extraordinary achievements. Organizing such an alumni association was, to put it bluntly, an integration of human resources. It might be useful in the future, so the benefits were not small.
It's not a bad idea to organize an alumni association, but I can't be the president. Some of the alumni who graduated ten or twenty years earlier than us have become highly respected experts and scholars. If you want me to be the president, wouldn't that be putting me on a rack to be roasted? Chen Xing glanced at Fei Ren. He was not enthusiastic about this proposal at all.
Hearing Chen Xing's words, Fei Ren gave a hollow laugh. He didn't expect to flatter a donkey's butt, so he looked a little embarrassed.
Chen Xing looked at Fei Ren's face, and then looked at the others who were looking at him with the same awe. He shook his head slightly and was about to leave after sitting for a while.
After sitting for about a few minutes, he felt the phone in his pocket vibrate. Knowing that it was a text message, he picked it up and looked at it. The text message was from Zhong Ling. Chen Xing's eyes lit up slightly. Zhong Ling hadn't contacted him for a long time. In the text message, she asked if he would come back for the Spring Festival this year. Chen Xing immediately replied with a text message.
Zhong Ling also returned to Hai City for the Spring Festival. Chen Xing only knew that she had gone abroad to study the advanced experience of foreign cosmetics industry and was preparing to invest in the cosmetics industry. After that, they didn't contact each other much. When he received a text message from her during the Spring Festival and knew that she had also come back, Chen Xing was quite happy.
After sending a few text messages to Zhong Ling, Chen Xing stood up with a smile and said, "Enjoy your meal, everyone. I have something to attend to.
Chen Xing, don't you want to stay for a while? " Huang Ming was surprised.
"No, I have something to attend to." Chen Xing patted Huang Ming on the shoulder. He had already made an appointment with Zhong Ling to go out for a chat.
Hearing this, Huang Ming didn't say anything more. He could also see that Chen Xing was not very comfortable staying here, so it was normal for him to leave early. He also sensibly didn't force him to stay. With Chen Xing around, other classmates were actually a little reserved. When the gap between their identities had widened to the point where they could only look up to each other, the relationship between these classmates was destined to be unable to return to the past.
Chen Xing walked out of the restaurant. He didn't expect that Zhao Qing would leave right after him and chase after him. When he walked to the roadside and was about to stop a taxi, Zhao Qing came up to him. "Chen Xing, are you free? Let's sit together?" Zhao Qing's beautiful eyes were smiling. Her drunk face was a little charming as she stared at Chen Xing.
"I'm afraid I don't have time now." Chen Xing shook his head and stared at Zhao Qing. Zhao Qing was still as beautiful as ever. She didn't look like a young girl anymore, but more like a young married woman. Perhaps she had inherited the excellent cells of Zhao Yiping. Now that Zhao Yiping was over 50 years old, she still looked like a middle-aged woman.
"Is it because you don't have time or are you avoiding me on purpose?" Zhao Qing frowned slightly.
"I have something to attend to now, so I have to leave first. Does Miss Zhao think that I'm avoiding you on purpose?" Chen Xing said calmly.
"Chen Xing, have we become so distant? You used to call me Little Qing, but now you call me Miss Zhao. What a polite way to address me." Zhao Qing laughed at herself.
Chen Xing looked at the woman in front of him with a trace of mockery in his eyes. He remembered that it was Zhao Qing who asked him to call her Miss Zhao. He also clearly remembered that Zhao Qing said that she was already a married woman and hoped that he would respect himself and not call her Little Qing intimately. She didn't want her husband to misunderstand her, and she didn't want others to think that she had an ambiguous relationship with another man. Chen Xing remembered those words. It was the woman in front of him who said those words, and now it was the woman in front of him who changed her words. Women were fickle. This was an eternal truth.
"Chen Xing, let's go for a walk. I don't think I will take up too much of your time. We just want to chat. We haven't talked for a long time, right?" Seeing that Chen Xing didn't say anything, Zhao Qing couldn't see Chen Xing's face clearly in the night. She didn't know what Chen Xing was thinking at the moment, so she said again.
Chen Xing looked at the time and finally nodded. "Then let's go. But I have to say that it will only take a short while at most."
"Okay." Zhao Qing nodded and frowned slightly. "Do you really have something urgent to do?"
"It's not urgent. Anyway, I have something to do." Chen Xing nodded and didn't want to say anything more to Zhao Qing.
"If you really have something urgent to do, I will drive you there later since you didn't drive here." Zhao Qing said.
"That's not necessary. I can take a taxi myself." Chen Xing shook his head. Thinking that Zhao Qing had just drunk, Chen Xing couldn't help saying, "How dare you drive after drinking a few glasses?"
"Why wouldn't I dare? In Hai City, do you think anyone dares to check my car?" Zhao Qing raised her head. Her arrogant attitude was obvious.
Chen Xing shook his head and smiled. This was the current Zhao Qing. This was the real side of her. She was snobbish and liked to play up her privileges. The former Zhao Qing had long disappeared.
Walking along the road, Zhao Qing didn't know that her words just now had deepened Chen Xing's bad impression of her. But in her opinion, what she said was justified. In Hai City, who dared to check her car?
"Chen Xing, do you know that Sun Xiang and I have divorced?" After a few steps, Zhao Qing took the initiative to talk about her private affairs, which surprised Chen Xing a little. This kind of thing was not a glorious thing. Generally, no one would take the initiative to mention it to others. Those who knew about it would not ask, either, because it would increase the embarrassment and rub salt on others' wounds. However, Zhao Qing took the initiative to tell him about it. It was conceivable that Chen Xing was surprised.
After a short moment of surprise, Chen Xing answered calmly, "I just heard about it today."
"Really?" Zhao Qing stared at Chen Xing, as if she wanted to find out from Chen Xing's expression whether her words were true. She thought that Chen Xing might have known about it long ago.
Unable to see any expression on Chen Xing's face, Zhao Qing suddenly smiled and said, "Chen Xing, in fact, now that I think about it, you are the best. I really regret that I didn't insist.
It's meaningless to talk about this now. Miss Zhao, I think we'd better talk about something else. " Chen Xing frowned slightly. He felt that Zhao Qing's words were very ironic. If he had not married Zhang Ningning, he would not have such achievements and status as he had today, and Zhao Qing's attitude would not have changed. As a small civil servant, Zhao Qing would still be indifferent and look down on him as usual.
Seeing that Chen Xing did not speak, Zhao Qing smiled bitterly and said, "Well, you are living a happy life now. Your wife is the daughter of the Zhang family. You are much happier than me."
Chen Xing smiled but did not deny it. He felt that there was not much to communicate with Zhao Qing now. He kept raising his hand to look at the time. Chen Xing intended to leave. A car followed him and finally stopped slowly. He did not notice it.
A man in his thirties got out of the car and looked at Chen Xing with hostility. Finally, he looked at Zhao Qing and smiled. "Zhao Qing, didn't you say you were going to a class reunion? Why are you here?"
"I don't need to report to you where I am." Zhao Qing looked at the man in front of him angrily.
"Zhao Qing, what are you talking about? I care about you." The man curled his lips. He did not dare to get angry at Zhao Qing. He looked at Chen Xing unhappily. "Who are you? I advise you to stay away from Zhao Qing. "
"Wang Zhangzhi, what are you doing?" Zhao Qing said angrily.
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