Li Rui looked at her from head to toe. He was conquered by her charm and beauty. He secretly praised her in his heart. He didn't know that a woman in her forties could be so beautiful.
Wu Nan heard him greet her. She smiled at him and asked, "How long have you been here?" Li Rui saw her smile and felt strange. Didn't Guan Bao say that she was in a bad mood? How could she be in the mood to smile? Was Guan Bao lying to him? She thought about her question and said, "About ten minutes … The car is over there. Come with me." Wu Nan didn't move and asked another question, "Have you been waiting outside for the past ten minutes?" Li Rui shook his head and said, "No. I was waiting for you in the building a few minutes ago. Then I saw Chief Guan and he told me to come out and wait …" Wu Nan heard this and her face changed. She interrupted him and asked, "Why did he tell you to come out and wait?" Li Rui now understood that Guan Bao might have faked the imperial edict and used it to create a conspiracy to frame him. But for some reason, he didn't seem to have succeeded. He answered honestly, "He said that it was you who said that if I waited in the building, I would feel like I was rushing you, so he asked me to come out and wait."
Wu Nan heard this and her face became very gloomy. Her elegant and noble red phoenix eyes flashed with a cold light. Although she didn't say a word, it was more terrifying than losing her temper.
Guan Bao's little scheme was easy to operate and succeed, but it was also easy to be exposed. As long as the two involved, Wu Nan and Li Rui, confronted each other, his scheme would be exposed to the world. He was well aware of this, so he made up for any possible flaws that might appear in his plan. For example, he specifically told Li Rui not to talk too much when he saw Wu Nan when she was in a bad mood. In fact, he didn't want to give the two of them a chance to confront each other. He felt that Wu Nan would definitely not take the initiative to ask Li Rui. "You said that you would pick me up in the lobby. Why are you outside?" As the mayor, she would never ask Li Rui such a question. That would only lower her status.
Guan Bao devised this scheme and thought that he was smart enough to make up for the flaws. He thought that his scheme would succeed easily, but he never expected that the relationship between Wu Nan and Li Rui was already very close. Perhaps others didn't know, but in the hearts of the two people involved, they already regarded each other as close friends. Wu Nan, in particular, had a good impression of Li Rui, and this kind of good impression was beyond the relationship between a mayor and a subordinate. It was a strange feeling of a woman towards a man who was diligent in taking care of her. Moreover, Wu Nan had seen Li Rui's crystal clear heart and knew that he would never make such a low-level mistake. In fact, even if Li Rui really did make such a mistake, she was very willing to forgive him.
Therefore, when she saw Li Rui, she didn't care about her status as the mayor and directly asked the question that she wanted to know. She finally got the answer that everything was Guan Bao's doing! Thinking back to how he slandered and belittled Li Rui before, his thoughts had already surfaced.
For a moment, Wu Nan couldn't wait to drag Guan Bao out of the building and scold him. Then, she would wave her hand and tell him to get lost. Oh, I, Wu Nan, never lose my temper. Do you think I'm easy to fool?
But she was a calm and shrewd mayor. She knew what to do and what not to do, so she just buried her anger in the bottom of her heart. She secretly sighed and said to Li Rui apologetically, "I'm sorry to have caused you trouble again."
She was apologizing to Li Rui on behalf of Guan Bao, but she didn't say the reason. She just vaguely said it.
Li Rui smiled and said, "Mayor Wu, you're too polite. What kind of trouble is this? My mission is to pick you up. As long as I can pick you up, it's no trouble at all. "Wu Nan smiled and waved her hand and said," Okay, get in the car. I'll let you finish your mission quickly. Haha. "
If there were any leaders of the Eastern State present to see this scene, they would definitely be shocked. Although Wu Nan, the female mayor, was beautiful and gentle, she rarely laughed. It was even rarer to see her joke with a male leader. But today, she smiled at Li Rui, a small sector-level leader, and even took the initiative to joke with him. It was as if the sun had risen from the west. It was unbelievable!
However, as the person involved, Li Rui didn't feel that he had received the favor of the beautiful mayor. He walked to the back door of the Municipal Party Committee's car number one and opened the door to invite Wu Nan to sit inside. After she was seated, he closed the door and returned to the front passenger seat.
Lao Zhou didn't wait for his order and had already started the car. He drove out of the Qingyang Hotel and headed to Shengjing Hotel.
The distance from the Qingyang Hotel to Shengjing Hotel wasn't far. If there were no traffic jams, it would only take about ten minutes to drive there. After the car drove onto Hongqi Road, Li Rui turned around and introduced it to Wu Nan, "Shengjing Hotel isn't far. We'll reach it in about ten minutes."
He wasn't trying to find a topic to talk about. He was trying to let Wu Nan know what to do so that she wouldn't be impatient waiting for him.
Wu Nan said, "Oh," but didn't say anything else. Li Rui saw that she didn't like to talk, so he didn't say anything else and turned his head back.
Not long after, the first car drove into the underground parking lot of Shengjing Hotel. After getting out of the car, Li Rui led Wu Nan to the elevator lobby.
Wu Nan then said, "Song Shuji must be waiting for a long time?" Li Rui smiled and said, "Of course not. I'll be happy to have a reunion with an old classmate no matter how long I have to wait." Wu Nan wasn't stingy with her praise. "Xiao Li, I realize that you're very good with words." Li Rui said, "Is that so? I'm just telling the truth. "Wu Nan couldn't help but laugh and said," Your truth is very pleasant to hear. "
The two of them chatted and laughed as they walked into the elevator. When they came out of the elevator, they were already on the floor where the banquet room was.
Dozens of seconds later, Song Chaoyang and Wu Nan, this pair of old classmates from the Party School, met. The two of them smiled and shook hands. Although they looked very close, Li Rui keenly noticed that their relationship seemed to be limited to that of an old classmate. There was no other ambiguous relationship.
Before Wu Nan sat down, she took off her woolen coat. Li Rui saw this and hurriedly took the coat from her and helped her hang it on the hanger.
There was a waitress in the private room to provide all the services for the guests in the private room. When she saw Song Chaoyang and Wu Nan take their seats, she came forward to pour tea for them. The tea was freshly brewed, Jasmine Flower Tea. It emitted the fragrance of Jasmine flowers. When the yellow tea was poured out, the room was immediately filled with the enchanting fragrance of Jasmine flowers.
After the waitress poured tea for the two of them, she saw Li Rui standing next to them and wanted to pour more tea for him.
Li Rui hurriedly reached out and stopped her. He smiled and said, "It's okay …" Then he said to Song Chaoyang, "Secretary, I have something to do at home. I'll go back first. You can catch up with Mayor Wu."
He had good intentions. He wanted to give the two leaders a relatively private space to catch up with each other. He didn't want them to say anything inconvenient in front of a secretary like him.
Song Chaoyang immediately understood what he meant. He was very satisfied and nodded with a smile. "Okay, you can go back first. I …"
Without waiting for him to finish his sentence, Wu Nan interrupted, "Chaofan, I have a selfish idea, and that is to let Xiao Li stay. With him around, this little sister won't have to stay in the private room to serve us."
She meant to let Li Rui stay and take over the waitress's job. Then the waitress could leave. However, no one knew her true intentions. Was she worried that her words would be overheard by outsiders? Or did she mean something else?
When Song Chaoyang heard her words, the smile on his face became a little unnatural. However, he still forced a smile and looked at her deeply.
Wu Nan ignored him and stared at Li Rui.
Li Rui looked at her and saw that she wanted him to stay. However, he couldn't promise her. After all, she wasn't the boss. He could only turn to Song Chaoyang and wait for him to make a decision.
Song Chaoyang smiled. "Old classmate, you see, Xiao Rui also said that something happened at home. You should make things easier for him …"
Wu Nan interrupted him and asked Li Rui, "Xiao Rui …" Just as she said these two words, she suddenly realized something. She asked Song Chaoyang, "You called him Xiao Rui?" Song Chaoyang was stunned. "Yes, why?"
Wu Nan shook her head and said with a smile, "It's nothing. Then I'll follow your way of addressing him and call him Lil 'Rui. It's more intimate this way … Lil' Rui, what happened to your family?" Li Rui's excuse about something at home was just an excuse. In reality, there was nothing at home. However, since Wu Nan asked, he had to find something to do. After all, the boss wanted him to leave. He lied. "Oh, my wife just got pregnant. I have to go back to take care of her."
Song Chaoyang nodded repeatedly as he listened with a gratified expression on his face. Naturally, he was very satisfied with the excuse he found.
Wu Nan didn't know whether to laugh or cry when she heard this excuse. She complained, "I thought it was something urgent. So it's this. She's just pregnant, not giving birth to a child. Haha, why do you need to take care of her? Xiao Rui, I'll have to trouble you to be our waitress for once, okay? "
She used a pleading tone. Li Rui couldn't say anything else. He could only look at Song Chaoyang again.
When Song Chaoyang saw that Wu Nan insisted that Li Rui stay, he knew that he couldn't say anything else. He could only nod and say, "Alright, since Mayor Wu said so, then Lil Rui, you'll have to reluctantly stay."
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